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Steve Campbell
Massively Parallel Technologies Ushers in New Cloud Ecosystem
Post Date: September 29, 2010 @ 11:35 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: Behind the Cloud
This week Massively Parallel Technologies announced Blue Cheetah, an application development ecosystem for cloud computing. This is the industry's first application ecosystem software for cloud computing environments and is suitable for a large number of applications.
Bruce Maches
Planning for Validation of Cloud Based Applications
Post Date: September 28, 2010 @ 10:37 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: Behind the Cloud
Any life science company looking to validate cloud based systems must adjust its system qualification process to properly prove to any auditor that the application in question is installed, operating correctly while also meeting the users requirements.”
Nicole Hemsoth
GPU Technology on Center Stage at GTC '10
Post Date: September 27, 2010 @ 7:26 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: Behind the Cloud
At this year's GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, GPU computing in the scientific and technical research space took center stage, almost to the point where it became possible, at least for a moment, to forget the gaming roots and movement from the mainstream to the deeply technical.
Ed Lucente
Free Market Clouds: Why Cloud Computing Will Reinvigorate Capitalism
Post Date: September 22, 2010 @ 9:35 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: Behind the Cloud
I believe that the impact of cloud computing to the IT industry and to society at-large will be as significant as the Industrial Revolution was to market economies, otherwise known as capitalism. I’d like to explore the benefits of cloud computing, along with some potential threats.
Miha Ahronovitz
The Fate of Oracle’s Grid Engine: To HPC or Not to HPC?
Post Date: September 16, 2010 @ 10:27 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: Behind the Cloud
HPC is where innovation happens in enterprises.Oracle can assist enterprises today in managing costs, employees, distribution channels, their sales force and all that good stuff. But creating innovative new products and solutions,which in the long term form the basis of growth isn't really connected to Oracle’s classical enterprise products.
Joshua Geist
The Cloud Flattens the Technology Landscape...But Should Enterprise Be Worried?
Post Date: September 13, 2010 @ 2:59 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: Behind the Cloud
The cloud may be flattening the technology landscape, but it’s also offering advantages for organizations of every size. Enterprises certainly can’t relax knowing they have a technology advantage today. But they shouldn’t be worrying either provided their exploring all the cloud has to offer.
Wolfgang Gentzsch
The Evolution of Oracle Grid Engine
Post Date: September 09, 2010 @ 8:21 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: Behind the Cloud
Many have speculated that Oracle will drop the HPC related bits and pieces which came with the acquisition of Sun, including the Sun-developed Grid Engine. Some might doubt that Oracle management will ever be ever able to recognize the value of HPC technology for mainstream IT, but especially the value of resource managers like Grid Engine for any kind of distributed resource environment.
Nicole Hemsoth
Clearing the HPC Cloud Cache
Post Date: September 08, 2010 @ 12:07 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: Behind the Cloud
The web provides users in all fields the capability to interact with HPC cloud users, developers and vendors. As the area grows to encompass an increasing number of interested parties, the resources to discuss the topic will grow. Today we clear the cache from the past week or two of browsing and share some sites on the radar.
Rick Vanover
Is a Single Vendor Solution the Right Approach to Cloud?
Post Date: September 07, 2010 @ 6:15 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: Behind the Cloud
HP is adopting cloud technologies from the solution perspective that puts the work back on technology as a whole. I’ve long thought that application design makes virtualization and other technologies easier to manage, and that is not even taking into account availability requirements such as disaster recovery.
Rick Vanover
Are RTOs Forgotten With Data Protection in the Cloud?
Post Date: August 31, 2010 @ 1:56 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: Behind the Cloud
Regardless of how the cost argument is defended, one area that emerges in discussions about cloud-based data protection is the recovery time objective or RTO. The root of this discovery is that traditional storage options, even the venerable tape media category, have fast transfer rates. The hard question is do we put a price on an RTO?
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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.
Feature Articles
SLA-Aware Scheduling and Virtual Efficiency
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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CloudSigma CEO Elaborates on Science Cloud
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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Examining Questions of Virtualization and Security in the Cloud
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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Short Takes
Hacking into the N-Queens Problem with Virtualization
Jun 19, 2013 |
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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Datapipe and Verne Global's Green Cloud
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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IBM's Guide to Cloud Based HPC
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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OpenStack and the SDSC Research Cloud
Jun 06, 2013 |
The San Diego Supercomputer Center launched a public cloud system for universities in the area designed specifically to run on commodity hardware with high performance solid-state drives. The center, which currently holds 5.5 PB of raw storage, is open to educational and research users in the University of California.
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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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