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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.
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CometCloud: Using a Federated HPC-Cloud to Understand Fluid Flow in Microchannels
The ever-growing complexity of scientific and engineering problems continues to pose new computational challenges. Thus, we present a novel federation model that enables end-users with the ability to aggregate heterogeneous resource scale problems. The feasibility of this federation model has been proven, in the context of the UberCloud HPC Experiment, by gathering the most comprehensive information to date on the effects of pillars on microfluid channel flow.
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CERN, Google, and the Future of Global Science Initiatives
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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Short Takes
NASA Builds 'Climate in a Box'
May 23, 2013 |
The study of climate change is one of those scientific problems where it is almost essential to model the entire Earth to attain accurate results and make worthwhile predictions. In an attempt to make climate science more accessible to smaller research facilities, NASA introduced what they call ‘Climate in a Box,’ a system they note acts as a desktop supercomputer.
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Running Computational Fluid Dynamics in the Cloud
May 16, 2013 |
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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Exploring the Potential of Heterogeneous Computing
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