jPage: HPC Cloud Providers

I will start a post to compile a list of HPC cloud service providers. These are vendors that provide HPC Platform as a Service such that users can sign up and run HPC workload in a public cloud without owning any infrastructure on premise.

Amazon EC2
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers.  (EC2 HPC Feature)

ServedBy.net
Cloud HPC Infrastructure from ServedBy the Net can sustain the most intensive HPC applications with a predictable cost based on your needs. We manage the expensive hardware and provide ready-to-run OS templates; which saves you time, money and allows you to focus on the needs of your application.

GreenButton
GreenButton - GreenButton™ is an award winning global software company that specializes in high performance (HPC) cloud computing. The company provides a cloud platform for development and delivery of software and services that enable independent software vendors (ISVs) to move to the cloud and for their users to access cloud resources. GreenButton is Microsoft Corp’s 2011 Windows Azure ISV Partner of the Year and the company is has offices in New Zealand, Palo Alto and Seattle

ProfitBricks
ProfitBricks is the first HPC cloud provider to introduce Infiniband technology as interconnect fabric for its cloud infrastructure. This makes their system the most capable HPC system available from the Cloud.


Nimbix
Nimbix is a provider of cloud-based High Performance Computing infrastructure and applications. Nimbix offers HPC applications as a service through the Nimbix Accelerated Compute Cloud ™, dramatically speeding up data processing for Life Sciences, Oil & Gas and Rendering applications. Nimbix operates unique high performance hybrid systems and accelerated servers in its Dallas, Texas datacenter.


Update:

• 2012.08.22 - original post
• 2012.08.24 - added GreenButton
• 2012.09.12 - added ProfitBricks
• 2012.09.18 - added Nimbix