That engine, called CometCloud, is software that enables on-the-fly federation of disparate supercomputers that can be physically located in public and private clouds, data centers and enterprise grids.

CometCloud has been used to support science, engineering and business , but only as a research project. Parashar says he is not certain yet exactly how the service will be commercialized, but he expects that it will be available this fall.

in Network World's Data Center section.