The cloud is great for HPC: Discuss

Scientists rejoice: It's raining TeraFLOPS from the cloud

Sponsored High-performance computing (HPC) environments are expensive. Government research facilities and commercial laboratories spend hundreds of thousands building out large, monolithic supercomputers and then jealously guard their compute cycles. This approach to HPC is restrictive. It creates a rarified environment in which only the cream of the crop get the FLOPS they want."