Why supercomputers can only be developed in cloud networks

Supercomputer is emerging, high-end http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/10667.html > Cloud service platforms are becoming more popular, and one day you will be inseparable from them. The

    the most recently released cluster Compute Eight Extra SCM Public Beta is the most powerful cloud service Amazon has so far launched. Its release demonstrates the determination of Amazon Web Services (AWS) to attract more users to their high-performance cloud computing services. AWS's cloud services facilitate many applications, and high-performance computing programs are no exception. It reduces the cost and complexity of the user's purchase of ﹑ assembly and operational integration equipment. AWS's cloud services can be applied to many applications, such as physical simulations, seismic analysis, drug design, genome analysis, aircraft design, class-CPU-intensive analysis applications, and more. The core advantage of

    cloud computing is the ability to use very expensive computing systems through self configuring and time sharing patterns. Most businesses cannot afford supercomputers, so choose a rental server. This is the same situation I had when I had to use supercomputing in college. Of course, at that time, universities could not afford cray.

    Now the problem arises: what happens if these advanced computing devices are completely disconnected from existing hardware levels and software systems? What would happen if they switched to a multi-client-leased supercomputing device and hid the high-end word-long fixed-point instruction average execution speed (MIPS) behind the Cloud Application Programming Interface (API)?

    This pattern may open up new ﹑ more practical patterns for the delivery of cloud services, and this transformation will occur in many areas, and supercomputers are not the only platform. Other potential platforms or applications may become competitors in the "Run only in cloud" mode, such as large database services connected to high-end analytics, application platforms or applications that handle large amounts of image information, and so on.

    I believe that cloud computing will be a more profitable business for those who used to sell 20 to 30 computing systems each year. Perhaps they can simultaneously serve thousands of users at the same time on the cloud network, whereas in the past, a single user usually couldn't afford to calculate the software and hardware costs.

    In addition, I believe that this pattern will become the only operating mode for computing service providers, while Cloud networkThe network will become the only way to use platform computing equipment. This is not good news for people who want to use computing equipment in their own data centers. But perhaps overall, this is not a bad thing.
 

(editor: Heritage)