# About the Cloud HPC category

**URL:** <https://discourse.pangeo.io/t/about-the-cloud-hpc-category/1453>\
**Category:** Cloud HPC\
**Created:** [May 7, 2021, 9:01pm UTC](https://discourse.pangeo.io/t/about-the-cloud-hpc-category/1453 "2021-05-07T21:01:52Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 7, 2021, 9:01pm UTC](https://discourse.pangeo.io/t/about-the-cloud-hpc-category/1453/1 "2021-05-07T21:01:52Z")

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Discussion surrounding running true HPC applications (e.g. MPI) in the Cloud

The Cloud is becoming a viable contender with on-premise HPC for many applications, thanks to faster and lower latency networking, improvements to disk performance and larger instance types.

Use this category to discuss how to deploy HPC in the Cloud, compiler settings, tools, etc. Or for discussing particular use cases and issues (e.g. deploying a specific Met/Ocean/Hydro model in the Cloud)