March 17, 2008
BARCELONA, Spain, March 10 -- The global grid community will gather for Open Grid Forum’s 23rd event June 2-6 in Barcelona, Spain, strategically
placed in easy reach of many European and global experts. Hosted by
the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, OGF23 is also the first
international event where the recently EU-funded OGF-EUROPE project,
will play a primary organizing role in the overall event and the
program. This project focuses on mobilizing and integrating communities
on grid standards and best practices. During a portion of the week
(June 3-5), the EU-funded BEinGRID project will be co-locating its
"Industry Days" event, which includes results of their business
experiments using grid technologies. BEinGRID will also show numerous
demonstrations of grid deployments in various commercial environments.
A small commercial exhibition will also be an important part of this
multi-faceted event. See our sponsor prospectus for more information on
sponsorship and exhibition opportunities.
The
Call for Participation is now open and proposals for keynote
presentations, workshops, and other content useful to the grid and
distributed computing industry are welcome. The call closes on April
11, with notifications sent no later than April 21.
OGF23 will show
how grids have become a key enabling technology in a broad spectrum of
IT environments. Participants will hear how researchers and scientists
in both academic and commercial settings find grids useful to scale
their compute capabilities and data analysis while enhancing their
ability to collaborate across organizational boundaries. Participants
will also hear how commercial users find grids to enable better
business agility, reduce costs, and aid in the deployment of a shared,
service-oriented infrastructure. OGF23 will also provide a unique forum
for discussion on how grids form a necessary underpinning for emerging
technologies such as virtualization and clouds.
Participants will have a number of different session types to choose from including:
Researchers from the Suddhananda Engineering and Research Centre in Bhubaneswar, India developed a job scheduling system, which they call Service Level Agreement (SLA) scheduling, that is meant to achieve acceptable methods of resource provisioning similar to that of potential in-house systems. They combined that with an on-demand resource provisioner to ensure utilization optimization of virtual machines.
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Experimental scientific HPC applications are continually being moved to the cloud, as covered here in several capacities over the last couple of weeks. Included in that rundown, Co-founder and CEO of CloudSigma Robert Jenkins penned an article for HPC in the Cloud where he discussed the emergence of cloud technologies to supplement research capabilities of big scientific initiatives like CERN and ESA (the European Space Agency)...
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When considering moving excess or experimental HPC applications to a cloud environment, there will always be obstacles. Were that not the case, the cost effectiveness of cloud-based HPC would rule the high performance landscape. Jonathan Stewart Ward and Adam Barker of the University of St. Andrews produced an intriguing report on the state of cloud computing, paying a significant amount of attention to the problems facing cloud computing.
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Ruan Pethiyagoda, Cameron Boehmer, John S. Dvorak, and Tim Sze, trained at San Francisco’s Hack Reactor, an institute designed for intense fast paced learning of programming, put together a program based on the N-Queens algorithm designed by the University of Cambridge’s Martin Richards, and modified it to run in parallel across multiple machines.
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Jun 17, 2013 |
With that in mind, Datapipe hopes to establish themselves as a green-savvy HPC cloud provider with their recently announced Stratosphere platform. Datapipe markets Stratosphere as a green HPC cloud service and in doing so partnering with Verne Global and their Icelandic datacenter, which is known for its propensity in green computing.
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Jun 12, 2013 |
Cloud computing is gaining ground in utilization by mid-sized institutions who are looking to expand their experimental high performance computing resources. As such, IBM released what they call Redbooks, in part to assist institutions’ movement of high performance computing applications to the cloud.
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05/10/2013 | Cleversafe, Cray, DDN, NetApp, & Panasas | From Wall Street to Hollywood, drug discovery to homeland security, companies and organizations of all sizes and stripes are coming face to face with the challenges – and opportunities – afforded by Big Data. Before anyone can utilize these extraordinary data repositories, however, they must first harness and manage their data stores, and do so utilizing technologies that underscore affordability, security, and scalability.
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.