Breaking HPC Barriers with the 56GbE Cloud

With the widespread adoption of cloud computing, high-performance computing (HPC) is no longer limited to organisations with the funds and manpower necessary to house and run a supercomputer. However, the performance of large-scale scientific applications in the cloud has in the past been constrained by latency and bandwidth. The main reasons for these constraints are the design decisions of cloud providers, primarily focusing on high-density applications such as web services and data hosting.