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Amazon’s New HPC in the Cloud: Good Marketing or Real Progress?
Post Date: July 17, 2010 @ 2:03PM, Eastern Daylight Time
Blog: Behind the Cloud

Will average real HPC capability computing applications (e.g. in electronic design automation, automotive applications, or finite-element based material analysis) show a big performance improvement over vanilla EC2 instances, especially those which really demand low latency and high bandwidh?

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Moving Your Desktop to the Cloud: Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)
Post Date: May 4, 2010 @ 1:21PM, Eastern Daylight Time
Blog: Behind the Cloud

The literature on cloud is still rare in terms of concrete analyses on cost, benefits, and gaps of a cloud project, even (and especially) for specific scenarios. The simple reason? It’s usually complex, and implementation can be full of surprises

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The Monetary Benefit of Clouds, Or, When is Pay-Per-Use Useless?
Post Date: April 23, 2010 @ 4:07PM, Eastern Daylight Time

Recently, an IDC interview series reported that respondents identified "pay per use" as the number one benefit of cloud computing, suggesting widespread belief that clouds always reduce costs -- but is this always the case?

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Realizing the HPC Cloud Mainstream Dream
Post Date: April 12, 2010 @ 12:46AM, Eastern Daylight Time
Blog: Behind the Cloud

I see my main task to be examining the nature of the many roadblocks to mainstream cloud adoption. The best place to start is to search for success stories from you, our fellow community members, that demonstrate how you are clearing these hurdles.

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About Wolfgang Gentzsch

Wolfgang Gentzsch is Advisor to the EU project Distributed European Infrastructure for Supercomputing Applications (DEISA), a member of the Board of Directors of the Open Grid Forum, and a contributing editor to HPC in the Cloud.

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Cloud Computing: Improving Enterprise IT Efficiency and Agility

Cloud computing may be considered a new phenomenon in IT, but, in many ways, it is an evolution propelled by new IT delivery models and enabling technologies. Initially, driven by cost concerns, enterprises turned to collocation as a more efficient IT delivery model. The next logical step, managed hosting, allowed enterprises to leverage the management expertise – and efficiencies – of service providers.
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Inching Closer to a New Era for Interoperability Standards

Interoperability remains a critical issue for groups advocating that users and vendors alike require a healthy, open ecosystem to drive greater adoption rates but the standardization for portability has been slow in coming. Groups like the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) are working together with other standards bodies to create a better cloud as the organization's president discusses during an interview following news of OVF standardization--a first step for workload portability standards.
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On Par for 2 Billion: 3PAR Discusses Cloud Strategy

Storage vendor 3PAR has been at the heart of an intense bidding war between HP and Dell due to its unique refinements and developments in virtualized storage platform concepts. Thin provisioning and a focus on the needs of large-scale enterprises and cloud providers have catapulted the company into the public eye but as 3PAR's Craig Nunes discusses with HPC in the Cloud, the cloud strategy has been consistent since 1999--even if the world is just taking notice now.
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Oracle Placing GridEngine on New Track

Sep 03 | The Sun GridEngine, now the Oracle GridEngine has been a key open source staple for several HPC users for years. As Oracle takes a closer look at the product's potential for cloud and other uses, the future of its status as open source has been put into serious question. Read more...

What CERN Can Teach Enterprises About Computing, Collaboration

Sep 02 | A new research project from the London School of Economics and HfS is examining the lessons that enterprise can learn from the collaborative, distributed CERN computing (and cultural) environment. Read more...

Hybrid Workflow Model at Heart of Tornado Research

Sep 02 | The Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms undertook a hybrid computing project called the “Linked Environments for Atmospheric Discovery II” (LEAD II) with the help of the Big Red cluster and Microsoft’s Azure to better predict tornado conditions and to aid in the advancement of VORTEX2 goals. Read more...

Application Flexibility and the New Enterprise Architecture

Aug 31 | Application delivery strategies must be shaped with flexibility in mind as the number of platforms delivering core applications is bound to change with time. Since a greater number of devices and platforms are entering the infrastructure mix, those who do not adapt quickly face being locked into strategies that do not mesh well with new developments. Read more...

A Maturation Stage for Storage Virtualization

Aug 27 | Storage virtualization has been gaining momentum as it moves from concept to practice but some suggest the offerings in this realm have not matured sufficiently and require a longer maturation process before wider adoption occurs. Read more...

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