IBM chief: Supercomputing to SMEs will be huge cloud market in the future

17.09.2012
Tikiri Wanduragala, a senior systems consultant at IBM, has said that the next big thing to happen in the cloud computing market will be the availability of supercomputing applications to small and medium sized businesses.

Wanduragala told Computerworld UK that he believes this will change the process of manufacturing for mid-sized companies.

"One of the biggest things in the future of cloud computing will be the ability to get supercomputing to mid-sized businesses. For example, fluid dynamics was only in the realm of the aerospace industry and big car companies," he said.

"Now that software is available on general purpose systems, so SMEs can now use it for modelling."

Fluid dynamic systems allow companies to measure the flow of liquids and gases in motion, and have largely been used by the airline industry to calculate moments and forces on aircrafts.

"Making this available to SMEs will completely change the process of manufacturing. An SME won't have to build prototypes to see if they work, they can just model it," said Wanduragala.