Cycle Computing helps customers of all sizes gain fast and efficient access to the kind of supercomputing muscle usually reserved for universities and large research organizations. Cycle's founder, CEO and HPC expert Jason Stowe wanted to test the envelope of cloud computing and take its technology to the next level - spinning up a 10,000- core cluster in the cloud. Stowe teamed up with a prominent life science company who needed supercomputing power to research how proteins bind to each other, and utilized Amazon Web Services to begin provisioning 10,000 cores in an HPC cluster on Amazon's EC2 compute cloud.