The CIO's Guide To Migrating HPC Workloads To The Cloud
DataCenter Knowledge, January 27th, 2023
The benefits of moving high performance computing to the cloud can go beyond speeding up access to the right hardware but you still need to think about skills and cost control.
When the UK's national weather forecaster, the Met Office, announced its next supercomputer purchase would actually be a cloud subscription, that was controversial: it recently settled out of court with its previous IT supplier after claims the decision was unfair. What it chose was a traditional supercomputer from a non-traditional supplier: selecting four Cray EX systems on Azure to 'spend less time buying supercomputers and more time utilizing them" as Met Office IT Fellow Richard Lawrence phrased it.