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Rocky Mountain Super Computing center In Butte, Montana using the pay-as-you-go model for smaller businesses

December 13, 2009 /

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In Butte, Montana, Rocky Mountain Super Computing center http://www.rmscinc.org/ was established to develop partnerships with the national labs to allow it to leverage expertise to bring in people to work on the hard problems. It uses a large cloud computing platform that also allows it to move work to IBM’s Computing on Demand Centers for projects that require more compute power than it has on hand. Similar to Ohio and New Mexico, its primary mission to develop jobs and make compute resources easily adopted through a "pay as you go" or "on demand" model.

Patrick Thibodeau

Full Story: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/print/9141139/Supercomputing_centers_acknowledge_Amazon_influence?taxonomyName=Cloud+Computing&taxonomyId=65