Manufacturers, logistics companies, pharmaceutical companies and other energy companies have been using supercomputers to push the limits of research and discovery and answer questions that were not possible using other means. Companies are using cloud to solve problems which were once solved by supercomputers. Cloud computing has encircled high performance computing or HPC and supercomputers along with cloud solutions continue to advance. Companies in the auto industry, airlines, energy are willing to work with supercomputers to solve their big questions. Along with wide range of hardware, optimised software’s run efficiently on supercomputers. Such computing also helps companies to improve their state of art. The six different reasons which encourage companies to use supercomputers are that they have amazing computational capacity, the datasets fit properly into the memory, the interconnect is analytical, advanced modelling power, expansion, and speeds discovery.

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