Could the “C” in HPC Stand for “Cloud”?
Now that “Cloud Computing” has become the IT buzzword du jour for professionals and vendors looking to cash in on the next big change in datacenters, many in the HPC community are evaluating whether HPC workloads are appropriate for cloud environments. At least a portion of this debate is associated with questions such as “What is cloud computing?” and “What qualifies a workload as HPC?”.
