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AWS’s new HPC-as-a-service offering democratizes supercomputer access
AWS Parallel Computing lets enterprises use HPC clusters to run any kind of workload without needing in-house system administrators.
“There are a number of existing workloads today that really should be or could be taking advantage of high-performance computing resources, but because of the perception that it’s only for large enterprises or labs, whether real or perceived, is too much that people go, you know what, I don’t even want to go there,” Colle said. With more companies interested in using HPC clusters, “HPC-as-a-service” has grown thanks to cloud providers like AWS, Google, Microsoft Azure and Penguin Computing on Demand, which offer access to these powerful servers to clients. Gartner Analyst and Senior Director Tony Harvey told Ve ntureBeat HPC-as-a-service is nothing new, but more kinds of companies are seeing new use cases for supercomputers that cloud providers will want to offer the service more and more.
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