Most public HPC centers would offer free computational resources to research institutions: this makes sense as a way of concentrating the expenses that unlinked small and replicated computing resources across universities make. It is a good way of sharing resources efficiently. Makes sense.
Private sector can also join; but paying per storage and cpu-usage. And that has no sense for the national companies: they pay taxes and have to pay for using the national computing resources as well. And their impact in local economy can be equally compared to the impact that research has for the national scientific community.
They have to pay twice and usually HPC centers can not guarantee a top-class security of their industrial data or a 24x7 operations.
Once more, public managers should review its policies and be a real impulse to our industry -and stop making marketing with fake headlines.
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