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Tom Tabor
HPC is a Workload; Cloud is an Architecture: A Chat With Intel's Boyd Davis
Post Date: November 03, 2010 @ 12:31 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: Behind the Cloud
We caught up with Boyd Davis for this video interview from ISC Cloud in Frankfurt, Germany, Vice President at Intel's Architecture Group to talk about how, when considering HPC in the cloud, one can view HPC as a workload and cloud computing as an architecture.
Tom Tabor
The View from ISC Cloud: Photo Highlights
Post Date: November 02, 2010 @ 11:23 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: Behind the Cloud
Last week at the ISC Cloud event in Frankfurt Germany some of the leading figures in the high-performance computing and cloud space met to discuss progress and current challenges as those in HPC consider the cloud for their applications. On site was Tom Tabor, publisher of HPCwire and HPC in the Cloud who took photos, a select few of which we'll share here.
Nicole Hemsoth
Harvard to Present “Hands On” Cloud Course
Post Date: October 27, 2010 @ 1:21 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: Behind the Cloud
Several universities have been launching continuing education programs on cloud and virtualization and Harvard is another to join those ranks. To learn more about what such a course involves, we spoke with the instructor, David Malan about EC2 hands-on use and class goals.
Steve Campbell
House of the Rising Technology: Disruptive Innovations at SC10
Post Date: October 21, 2010 @ 11:53 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: Behind the Cloud
At SC10, the Disruptive Technologies showcase will examine new computing architectures and interfaces that will significantly impact the high-performance computing field over the next five to 15 years, providing an early glimpse into the future of high-performance computing.
Nicole Hemsoth
What's Missing From This Year's Cloud Circuit
Post Date: October 19, 2010 @ 9:23 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: Behind the Cloud
While there are several upcoming events that address both HPC and cloud, there is a notable lack of case studies and balanced, non-vendor-driven discussions about practical implementations--a far more useful topic for those new to the topic or considering the move.
Nicole Hemsoth
The Role of Linux in the “Impending” Cloud
Post Date: October 12, 2010 @ 9:15 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: Behind the Cloud
A survey-based report from The Linux Foundation and Yeoman Technology Group that was released looked at the growth of Linux in the large-scale enterprise space. It also shed some light on possible trends related to the role of cloud computing--and the role of Linux as an OS in a virtualized environment.
Nicole Hemsoth
Robert Graybill on Integrating HPC's "Missing Middle"
Post Date: October 06, 2010 @ 1:42 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: Behind the Cloud
Robert Graybill, CEO and President of Nimbis Services in a video interview disucssing core issues related to the missing middle in HPC, particularly in the manufacturing context. Identifies what potential users require and how they can be granted access to much-needed resources to drive growth.
Nicole Hemsoth
Virtualization and Performance: Brocade's Dr. Maria Iordache
Post Date: October 04, 2010 @ 12:53 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: Behind the Cloud
Dr. Maria Iordache, formerly of IBM and now with Brocade discusses the view that virtualization renders the true definition of HPC immobile since the critical "p" of performance is sacrificed by the latency-add that virtualized resources bring to bear.
Nicole Hemsoth
Sneak Peek into The SCinet Sandbox
Post Date: October 04, 2010 @ 10:21 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: Behind the Cloud
During the HPC 360 event last week I caught up with Al Stutz from Avatec who disucssed using geographically distributed Infiniband clusters in a common Infiniband mesh, which will be demonstrated at SC10.
Nicole Hemsoth
Weighing the Queue, Evaluating the Utility
Post Date: October 04, 2010 @ 7:37 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: Behind the Cloud
During last week's HPC 360 event, Matt Dunbar, Chief Software Architect for SIMULIA discussed the challenges of running out of capacity on in-house systems and what evaluation measures are required when considering deploying on-demand resources for post-processing.
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Earl J. Dodd, President of Ideas And Machines, Inc. and i3D Inc.
Independent HPC consultant for cluster, grid, and cloud computing, and for data and compute-intensive applications, and General Chair of the ISC Cloud Conference.
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.
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An HPC industry consultant and cloud evangelist, Steve Campbell is a seasoned senior HPC executive.
Former Director of Information Technology for Pfizer's R&D division, current CIO for BRMaches & Associates.
Sue Korn is a Senior Analyst at Intersect360 Research specializing in Edge HPC applications, and a 20-year veteran of the Financial Services Industry. In her role at Intersect360 Research, Korn spearheads the company's analysis of the drivers and barriers of HPC adoption in business environments and the growing role of Edge HPC applications.
Scott Clark has been an infrastructure solution provider in the EDA/Semiconductor industry for almost 20 years.
Ignacio M. Llorente, Ph.D in Computer Science (UCM) and Executive MBA (IE Business School), is a Full Professor in Computer Architecture and Technology, and the Head of the Distributed Systems Architecture Research Group at Complutense University of Madrid.
Joshua Geist is the founder and CEO of Geminare Incorporated, an innovator in cloud-based enablement technologies for the Recovery as a Service market. Combining a degree in Physics with over 20 years of technology experience, Joshua's passion lies in solving technology challenges for the mid-sized business market.
Miha Ahronovitz specializes in cloud software, products and business models and led product and business strategy for Sun Microsystem’s HPCGrid and Cloud division. Following Sun’s merger, Miha is now the Principal of Ahrono Associates.
Edward J. Lucente is V.P. of Business Development at Data Center Rebates, Inc., an IT efficiency consultancy based in Carlsbad, CA, whose professional services focus on data center energy efficiency (DCEE), leasing integrated with technology refreshes, and negotiation of IT energy rebates. (Ed is a rabid Red Sox fan also.)
Craig Lund is a consultant focused on specialized markets for High Performance Computing. He is best known from his many years as CTO of Mercury Computer Systems.
Jake is a software executive, writer and blogger. Based in Raleigh, North Carolina, he is currently the chief marketing officer for rPath. Feel free to contact Jake via email at jsorofman@rpath.com
Tom is the publisher of HPC in the Cloud. He has over 30 years of experience in business-to-business publishing, with the last 22 years focused primarily on High Productivity Computing (HPC) technologies.
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Large-scale, worldwide scientific initiatives rely on some cloud-based system to both coordinate efforts and manage computational efforts at peak times that cannot be contained within the combined in-house HPC resources. Last week at Google I/O, Brookhaven National Lab’s Sergey Panitkin discussed the role of the Google Compute Engine in providing computational support to ATLAS, a detector of high-energy particles at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
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Avoiding Scientific Computing Bottlenecks in the Cloud
Frank Ding, engineering analysis & technical computing manager at Simpson Strong-Tie, discussed the advantages of utilizing the cloud for occasional scientific computing, identified the obstacles to doing so, and proposed workarounds to some of those obstacles.
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Overcoming the Cloud Security Barrier for Financial Services
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Running Computational Fluid Dynamics in the Cloud
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When it comes to cloud, long distances mean unacceptably high latencies. Researchers from the University of Bonn in Germany examined those latency issues of doing CFD modeling in the cloud by utilizing a common CFD and its utilization in HPC instance types including both CPU and GPU cores of Amazon EC2.
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In Support of Cloud-based Rendering
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