Rocky Mountain Supercomputing Center was in the news last week when it announced its partnership with GIS software firm ESRI. At the end of the announcement was a statement about how RMSC has the goal of bringing HPC to Main Street, which is a goal at a handful of other centers as well but is enjoying particular success in Montana. That issue alone seemed worthy of tackling independently of the news about GIS in the cloud since it marks one of the greatest possibilities for scientific computing we’ve seen in at least a decade — the possibility of a supercomputer for everyone.
Delivering HPC to the New Main Street
July 20, 2010