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I like the expression "democratization of HPC" -- and the astute analysis of options including the recently launched UniCloud.

http://www.hpcwire.com/blogs/Decoupling-HPC-From-the-Datacenter-35576624.html The democratization of HPC is unlikely to happen if every company and institution is forced to build and maintain multi-million dollar datacenters to house supercomputers. Power, cooling and space constraints as well as a shortage of system administration expertise will limit the spread of HPC datacenters. … For legacy datacenters that can't expand, especially those in urban areas, the challenge is to upgrade with hardware that fits into the existing space but doesn't overload the energy and cooling capacity of the building. And for workstation-bound users who would like to move into the HPC realm, but don't have a datacenter and have no plans to build one, the problem is even more obvious. Are there alternatives? There are two relatively recent developments that could free HPC users from their datacenter habit: personal supercomputing and cloud computing. Read the full article at: http://www.hpcwire.com/blogs/Decoupling-HPC-From-the-Datacenter-35576624.html