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PiCloud: Scientific open source computing in the cloud

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 22, 2011

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“Ken: PiCloud offers the easiest way to utilize the cloud for
compute-intensive applications; more specifically, applications in
scientific computing, high-performance computing, and batch
processing. With only a couple lines of code, scientists,
developers, and engineers on our platform can leverage thousands of
cores of computational power on-demand.

“Our goal is to make computing power a utility for scientists in
the same way that electricity is for modern society: available to
everyone, seemingly infinite in quantity, and readily accessible
with a flip of a switch. We achieve this by being a serverless
cloud. In other words, our users each get the power of a
supercomputer at their fingertips without having to design,
provision, or administer any servers.”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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