A NEW million-dollar super-computing facility, the biggest such facility here, will allow companies to rent super-computers and high-end business software from Saturday.
Instead of paying tens of thousands of dollars to buy their own computer servers that may sit idle during lull periods, companies like animation studios or biomedical research firms which need high-end super-computers in their business will be able to 'rent' computing power when they need it, said Singapore Computer Systems executive vice-president Alvin Kok.
According to a study by the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore, computer servers are only in use between 10 and 35 per cent of the time.
