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HPC: Rent or Buy
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Fredette, Michelle – Campus Technology, 2012
"Rent or buy?" is a question people ask about everything from housing to textbooks. It is also a question universities must consider when it comes to high-performance computing (HPC). With the advent of Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Microsoft Windows HPC Server, Rackspace's OpenStack, and other cloud-based services, researchers now have…
Descriptors: Systems Development, Educational Technology, Technology Planning, Information Networks