High Performance Computing – Is HPC Now an Enterprise Proposition?

High performance computing (HPC) has long been the preserve of academic institutions and highly specialised industries needing to run data hungry applications that carry out advanced analytics and rapid simulations.

However, in recent years, the use of HPC has started to extend into other sectors, thanks to advances in processor power, clustering and storage technology alongside open source operating systems and software and, more recently, cloud.

These advances have driven down the cost of putting together HPC systems and given organisations access to infrastructure that they couldn’t previously afford...But, while HPC is used by top research groups studying the intricacies of the universe or cracking the genetic code that make us, what will the main benefit of HPC be to the enterprise?