Despite the declining cost of supercomputing, the technology still remains out of reach for many businesses and universities, some of which have found alternative solutions. Bringing supercomputing to industry is just what the Blue Collar Computing program at the Ohio Supercomputer Center was designed to do. Launched in 2004 with the support of the Ohio Board of Regents, the collaborative program seeks to provide easy and affordable access to advanced computing technology.
Even if you don't want to build your own PS3 cluster, HP sells a "supercomputer-in-a-box" that's only slightly larger than your normal desktop but can be used for finite element analysis! And if that's too much, Pervasive Software has developed a massively parallel dataflow engine to turn your commodity quadcore machine into a HPC!
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The Secret Lives of Supercomputers, Part 2
Posted by: Walaika Haskins August 8, 2008 08:30 AMDespite the declining cost of supercomputing, the technology still remains out of reach for many businesses and universities, some of which have found alternative solutions. Bringing supercomputing to industry is just what the Blue Collar Computing program at the Ohio Supercomputer Center was designed to do. Launched in 2004 with the support of the Ohio Board of Regents, the collaborative program seeks to provide easy and affordable access to advanced computing technology.
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