Hi Rob, thanks for a fun but informative article. As you hint at, HPC has long been the domain of research universities, government labs, and only the very largest companies. These were the only entities could afford HPC, and had over the years developed the necessary expertise to build and operate the hardware and software.

But the cloud is making HPC more attainable to everyone. With the capital costs and expertise being supplied by the cloud provider, the price point as well as the learning curve become much more palatable to the average engineer or scientist. We are still in the early days, but there are many companies working towards this.

This article published in Scientific Computing World explains some of the technology developed by my company UberCloud to enable this transformation.

https://www.theubercloud.com/passing-hpc-into-the-hands-of-every-engineer-and-scientist/

Cheers,
Thomas Francis
Head of Products
UberCloud