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May 17, 2012

Cloud Services Satisfy a Higher Calling

Higher education involves many collaborative projects that lend themselves to cloud services, however often those services are not tailored to the uniqueness of an academic environment. That's where the Internet2 NET+ project comes in. By partnering with 16 major cloud providers, the networking consortium is seeking to expedite the delivery of cloud services and by doing so advance research and innovation in the United States. Read more...

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Univa CEO Gary Tyreman on the Evolution of HPC, Big Data and Cloud

It's been a little over a year since Univa took over stewardship of the open source workload manager and acquired the founding Sun Grid Engine team from Oracle, and the company just announced its third production release. CEO Gary Tyreman discusses the latest enhancements as well as the company's plans around cloud, big data and the enterprise.
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Bright Streamlines Cloud-Bursting with Data-Aware Scheduling

Bright Cluster Manager 6.0 allows users to extend on-site clusters or create entirely new clusters using the Amazon EC2 cloud, but what company officials are perhaps most proud of is the addition of data-aware scheduling. This set-it-and-forget-it job submission feature adds significant value to the cloud bursting model by boosting productivity and cycle times.
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Cycle Spins Up 50,000-core Cluster in Amazon Cloud

The case for utility supercomputing just got a lot bigger, literally. Cycle Computing has created a 50,000-core virtual supercomputer to assist in the development of novel drug compounds for cancer research.
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Cloud Features Prominently at Moabcon 2012

During Moabcon, which took place earlier this month, Adaptive Computing highlighted its recent product refresh, laid out future plans and provided a forum for customer feedback. The well-attended event stirred lots of discussion around the relevancy of cloud computing to HPC, and contributor Steve Campbell was there to capture the proceedings.
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Short Takes

Breaking the Cloud Barrier

5/15/2012 | New Microsoft report shows that beyond the expected financial benefits, cloud services may offer more comprehensive security features compared to in-house IT operations.
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Vendors Demo Next-Gen Sequencing Platforms for Pharma

5/14/2012 | During the second annual Pistoia Alliance conference, three teams demonstrated their newly-implemented cloud-based next-generation sequencing platforms.
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Zunicore Offers Bare Metal by the Hour

5/10/2012 | PEER1's cloud division, Zunicore, will soon be offering GPU-equipped servers on-demand.
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US Cloud Providers Struggle With Data Privacy Laws

5/8/2012 | The Patriot Act leads foreign governments to question the security of US cloud services.
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Genomic Data Gets Comfy in the Cloud

5/7/2012 | Startup DNANexus is helping to bring personalized medicine to the masses with its cloud-based next-gen sequencing platform.
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Cloud Computing Saves Big Money for the Fed

5/3/2012 | Study reveals that federal agencies shaved $5.5 billion off their IT budget through the use of cloud services, but they could have saved twice that amount.
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In House vs. In Cloud: An Altair Exec Talks Infrastructure

4/30/2012 | Bill Nitzberg, CTO of Altair’s PBS Works division, discusses Altair's HPC management software and his take on the cloud.
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Appro White Paper: Enabling Performance-per-Watt Gains in HPC

04/05/2012 | Appro | Designed to meet the growing global demand for HPC solutions, Appro's Xtreme-X™ Supercomputer delivers superior performance-per-watt and reduced I/O latency while bringing significant flexibility to HPC workload configurations including capacity, hybrid, data intensive and capability computing.

Exploring the Potential of Heterogeneous Computing

04/02/2012 | AMD | Developers today are just beginning to explore the potential of heterogeneous computing, but the potential for this new paradigm is huge. This brief article reviews how the technology might impact a range of application development areas, including client experiences and cloud-based data management. As platforms like OpenCL continue to evolve, the benefits of heterogeneous computing will become even more accessible. Use this quick article to jump-start your own thinking on heterogeneous computing.

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Contributors

Tiffany Trader
Tiffany Trader is the editor of HPC in the Cloud. With a background in HPC publishing, she brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to bear on a range of topics relevant to the technical cloud computing space. More > >

Wolfgang Gentzsch
Independent HPC consultant for cluster, grid, and cloud computing, and for data and compute-intensive applications, and General Chair of the ISC Cloud Conference.
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Jose Luis Vazquez-Poletti
Dr. Jose Luis Vazquez-Poletti is Assistant Professor in Computer Architecture at Complutense University of Madrid (Spain), and a Cloud Computing Researcher at the Distributed Systems Architecture Research Group. He is directly involved in EU funded projects, such as EGEE (Grid Computing) and 4CaaSt (PaaS Cloud), as well as many Spanish national initiatives. More > >

Steve Campbell
An HPC industry consultant and cloud evangelist, Steve Campbell is a seasoned senior HPC executive. More > >

Bruce Maches
Former Director of Information Technology for Pfizer's R&D division, current CIO for BRMaches & Associates. More > >

John Hurley
Principle Investigator and Director for the National Nuclear Security Administration and DOE sponsored Center for Disaster Recovery. More > >