[LINK] Supercomputing for everyone

[Andy Farkas]

On 09/19/12 06:12, Peter Bowditch wrote:
> I immediately hopped into the supercomputer cloud to analyse a serious
> problem in my SME. I wanted to find the relationship between temperature
> gradients, heat conductivity in materials, water temperature, air
> pressure, permeability of specific forms of paper, solubility of certain
> organic compounds and turbulence to find out how hot the water should be
> to make tea.
>
> I'm now using a semantic and language analysis model to interpret the
> cryptic answer: "When the light goes out on the jug".

Saw this fascinating explanation of how the cloud works. Explains it so 
well!

http://www.theonion.com/video/hp-on-that-cloud-thing-that-everyone-else-is-talki,28789/

-andyf

ps. after watching it, go back and read the caption-bar at the bottom :)