Nimbis Services, Inc. was founded by high performance computing (HPC) industry veterans to act as a brokerage clearinghouse for a broad spectrum of integrated cloud-based HPC platforms and applications. The firm has a fully integrated online technical computing marketplace comprising several stores hosting HPC and cloud modeling, simulation, and data anaysis applications packaged as software-as-a-service (SaaS) and platform-as-a-service (PaaS) products. Products are bundled and priced in configurations for entry-level through expert-level users. Products are purchased and deployed through an ecommerce interface with on-demand click-through pay-as-you-go purchasing with pre-pay and post-pay payment options and credit card or purchase order payment methods. Under development are expertise-as-a-service (EaaS) and workflow-as-a-service (WFaaS) products. Nimbis is also expanding it services through the development of similar technical computing marketplaces for regional online manufacturing centers across the US. The firm represents a new, high-potential sales channel for HPC vendors interested in the firm's sizeable untapped target market of users ready to explore moving beyond desktop computing Purchasers and vendors access Nimbis' services through the Web-based business-to-business virtual storefront. This Digital Analysis Computing virtual storefront will evolve into social network site for this community-of-interest to include contributed software application solutions, and hosted domain-specific sub-portals with high-value advertising potential. It will be based on service-oriented architecture (SOA) standards and Web 2.0 technology.
