ISVs need to change licensing to fit clouds

More vendors in the high-performance computing sector need to become cloud-friendly and offer on-demand product licensing, according to Penguin Computing, which is offering a cloud that has been customized for HPC applications.

"A lot of ISVs are very hesitant to jump on the cloud bandwagon, because they are worried about eroding their licensing revenue," said Arend Dittmer, director of HPC product management at Penguin Computing, while an interview at the International Supercomputing Conference.

The business case for multicore

Vendors at first didn't want to embrace the business case for multicore and figure out how to make as much money or moreover from it, according to Fettig. Nevertheless they in the end came around, he said.

At ISC, Penguin Computing announced that it will use Adaptive Computing's Moab Cluster Suite to manage workloads on its HPC cloud offering Penguin on Demand, in order to offer better performance.