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The cloud has made the processing power of the world's most powerful computers accessible to a wider range of companies. Companies can now rent hours on the cloud and use it to build a supercomputer, which makes it possible to bring tremendous computational power to bear on R&D. What types of projects could benefit from this investment? There are a few uses that have proven value, including evaluating new designs through cloud-based simulation instead of physical prototyping, simulation of a product's interaction with real-world scenarios when physically prototyping is impractical, and predicting the performance of a full range of potential designs. It opens up possibilities for new products and services that would have been impossible or impractical before.
The shift to cloud has only just begun in the area of supercomputing. The world's largest, most powerful computers were once only available to governments, research universities, and the most well-heeled corporations, and were used for cracking enemy codes, simulating weather, and designing nuclear reactor. The cloud is bringing supercomputing into the mainstream.
