| Mass Spectrometer Maker Finds Help in the Cloud |
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NOVEMBER 13, 2009 SMARTER TECHNOLOGY Varian was on a tight deadline to simulate a design for a mass spectrometer. Because of the time crunch, it turned to Cycle Computing, a Wethersfield, Conn., company that specializes in high-performance computing and open-source solutions in the field of cloud computing. Cycle provisioned a fully secured cluster on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, also known as Amazon EC2. |