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Cray is exploring options to offer supercomputing "as a service", but don’t expect AWS to be offering the venerable vendor’s number-crunching monsters online anytime soon. Rather, the company is looking at ways it can offer its technology as a service, which if nothing else potentially relieves customers of at least some of …

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  1. Fungus Bob

    Soup or computing as a service?

    I'll have the soup.

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  2. Stevie

    Bah!

    Very witty subtitle, Wilde, very witty.

    Ooh, if you use it to run fission sims are you doing it in the mushroom cloud?

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  3. Chas E. Erath

    Same as it ever was?

    Hasn't it always (i.e. for the last 20 or more years) been 'normal' to lease time on big iron(s)? I mean, Cray never offered it (I don't think), but still - why and/or how is this a new and/or different thing? (Besides the word 'cloud', I mean...)

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