Comments on: Whitepaper: To the Cloud – Windows HPC Server with Windows Azure http://insidehpc.com/2011/01/22/whitepaper-to-the-cloud-windows-hpc-server-with-windows-azure/ HPC News Without the Noise for Supercomputing Professionals | insideHPC Sun, 19 May 2013 10:46:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: Greg http://insidehpc.com/2011/01/22/whitepaper-to-the-cloud-windows-hpc-server-with-windows-azure/#comment-297593 Greg Tue, 25 Jan 2011 18:36:11 +0000 http://insidehpc.com/?p=16802#comment-297593 I'm concerned that the over-use of the term HPC has resulted in another 'buzz' trend that is going to ruin yet another industry. HPC and the use of the CLOUD cannot properly work by definition. Internet technology does not provide enough throughput to do true high performance computing via a cluster of long distance connected nodes. Just because you make a bunch of machines process things in parallel does not automatically make them high performance. High Performance Computer systems are precision designed to work at the absolute fastest speed possible to compile data as quickly as physical characteristics will allow. To claim that sending data over a 1mbit-1gbit link to another machine clear across the country to compile data and send back and do that through multiple nodes is ludicrous! I think people need to start taking HPC seriously and stop trying to gimmick every new thing they see. Thanks. I’m concerned that the over-use of the term HPC has resulted in another ‘buzz’ trend that is going to ruin yet another industry. HPC and the use of the CLOUD cannot properly work by definition. Internet technology does not provide enough throughput to do true high performance computing via a cluster of long distance connected nodes. Just because you make a bunch of machines process things in parallel does not automatically make them high performance. High Performance Computer systems are precision designed to work at the absolute fastest speed possible to compile data as quickly as physical characteristics will allow. To claim that sending data over a 1mbit-1gbit link to another machine clear across the country to compile data and send back and do that through multiple nodes is ludicrous! I think people need to start taking HPC seriously and stop trying to gimmick every new thing they see.

Thanks.

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