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DEMOCRAT ISA T ION OF CLOUD COMPUT ING
The most transformative technology trend of this century is increased access to computing. Whether it’s the sequencing of the first human genome, the finding of the “God Particle” that give matter mass earlier in 2012, or the correct prediction of the path for Hurricane Sandy, there are many examples of the impact that computing can have on humanity, and our understanding of the world. Jason Stowe investigates
Once an exclusive service reserved for the giants in the space, high performance computing (HPC) is now accessible to nearly everyone. The recent democ- ratisation of compute, coupled with the fundamental belief that all of humanity’s scientific, engineer- ing and technical problems are solvable with enough access to compute power, has huge implications for not only this industry but humanity in general. If compute power is what it takes to move the needle for such areas as energy, life sciences and risk management, and it is more readily available, the world will be in a much better place.
Across various industries, cloud application platforms are becoming widely available, and the use of cloud computing as a service has emerged as a mainstream way to harness compute power. Utility supercomputing, the on-demand creation and use of high performance compute environment as a me- tered, pay-for-use service, is a platform for application delivery that has contributed to the democratisation of compute. With utility supercomputing, there’s a favora- ble consumption model that allows us to run computa- tions that were not possible until recently. Even large organisations with internal infrastructure don’t have 20,000 cores sitting around waiting to be used. With utility supercomputing, we can run the better part of
CCI Magazine January 2013
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