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Jul 29, 2010

Close Encounters of the Storage Kind

Steve Campbell scours the floor at SIGGRAPH 2010 in Los Angeles in search of some of the most compelling firms catering to Hollywood's HPC needs and finds that BlueArc fits the bill. Storage and cloud companies are finding that the entertainment industry is always seeking the next big tech and the fight is on to deliver. Read more...

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An Intelligent Public Cloud for HPC

Adaptive Computing came forth this morning with some details about their early involvement with Amazon's new HPC-geared instance type. In addition to the more predictable news about the role of their Moab technology, they also tested Cluster Compute Instances to determine how they would perform for HPC users.
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NVIDIA Serves Up Reality, GPU-Style

This morning NVIDIA and its hosting partner PEER 1 announced that they would be delivering the industry's first large-scale hosted GPU cloud, which means, among other things, that the popular RealityServer platform might be able to infiltrate more user groups due to the shedding of GPU cluster requirements.
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GIS Applications Take to the Clouds

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) applications have been among those relegated to the traditional mode of software delivery until more recently as some of the main players in the industry have taken the first tentative steps toward to the clouds. This new delivery model marks a paradigm shift from a business model standpoint and has the potential to bring compute-intensive GIS applications to a larger user base than ever before.
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NASA, Rackspace Open-Sourcing the Cloud

Rackspace announced today the arrival of OpenStack in conjunction with NASA, who will be providing a core aspect of its capbility later in the year. This news provides those with interoperability and standardization concerns a noble champion, even though the development and true potential of the open source project have still to be realized.
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Major U.S. Tech Firms Pressure EU for Cloud Standards

7/29/10 | Microsoft, Google and other U.S. tech firms are taking their case for standaridization of privacy and other laws across EU member countries in order to better support their billions in datacenter investments in Europe. Read more...

Developers Rank Cloud Service Providers, Choose IBM

7/28/10 | A recent survey ranked IBM as the number one choice for developers for private cloud services this year, an announcement based on a poll of over 400 developers who were asked about what they look for in a cloud service provider. Read more...

CSA Announces Cloud Security Certification

7/28/10 | The Cloud Security Alliance will be providing details about a cloud security test this week at the Black Hat Security Conference. This test will provide certification and is designed to reach both IT professionals as well as end users. Read more...

Berkeley Lab Looks to Google Apps

7/27/10 | Berkeley Labs has looked to Google Apps to help it reduce costs and aid in collaboration efforts throughout the many project team members at the research center. The institution expects to see savings in the millions over the course of the next five years due to the shift. Read more...

Efficiency and the HP Flexible Datacenter Design

7/27/10 | Today HP announced its Flexible Datacenter offering, which is geared toward improving datacenter efficiency via a unique "butterfly" modular design and power saving concepts. How efficient and cost-effective remains to be seen but it could mark greater design shift. Read more...

News from the DMTF's Open Cloud Standards Incubator

7/26/10 | The Distrobuted Management Task Force (DMTF), the force behind the Open Cloud Standards project has emerged with additional documents and workshop series to step closer to the goal of increased cloud standardization. Read more...

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Steve Campbell

Behind the Cloud
Clouds Over SIGGRAPH
Noteworthy items and discussion points from SIGGRAPH 2010 as clouds begin to take shape in the graphics, animation and film production industry. Punctuated with photos from the show.
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Joshua Geist

Behind the Cloud
Digital Breadcrumbs: Audit Trails in the Cloud
Storage and cloud companies are taking audit concerns seriously as they realize that simple data warehousing is not a solution. Digital breadcrumbs and file and session tagging will become the key to enterprises confidently adopting available cloud technologies.
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Nicole Hemsoth

Behind the Cloud
Even Datacenters Can't Afford to Live in California
Although admired for its efforts to curb greenhouse emissions via legislation that targets people where they feel it most--the pocketbook--California could be extending legislation that will have a direct impact on the viability of data center construction and operation in the state.
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Contributors:

Nicole Hemsoth
Nicole Hemsoth is the managing editor of HPC in the Cloud and will discuss a range of overarching issues related to HPC-specific cloud topics in posts. More > >

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

Wolfgang Gentzsch
Advisor to the EU project Distributed European Infrastructure for Supercomputing Applications (DEISA), a member of the Board of Directors of the Open Grid Forum. More > >