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Earl Dodd
The HPC Cloud Must Validate ROI with (Better) Econometric Models
Post Date: December 06, 2010 @ 1:45 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: Behind the Cloud
We need econometric models to help demonstrate that HPC, especially for the on-demand environment, is a viable tool for economic development.
Nicole Hemsoth
Cross-National Perceptions of Clouds, Data Protection and Privacy
Post Date: November 30, 2010 @ 6:39 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: Behind the Cloud
This week Fujitsu released a report that examined cross-national differences in understanding and accepting the inherent data control issues that come with losing information into the cloud. Among key elements of concern are governments having control over a data, which carries a worry level that is not evenly distributed across nations.
Steve Campbell
Start Me Up….Cloud Tools Help Companies Accelerate the Adoption of Cloud Computing
Post Date: November 29, 2010 @ 12:03 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: Behind the Cloud
Cloud computing’s many flavors of services and offerings can be daunting at first review, but if you take a close look at the top providers offerings, you will see an ever increasing road map for on-boarding your existing or new applications to “the cloud”.
Nicole Hemsoth
HP Announces Cinematic G-Cloud for Government Evaluation
Post Date: November 22, 2010 @ 7:24 AM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: Behind the Cloud
Currently in the testbed stage, HP Labs is presenting the G-Cloud as a Minority Report-esque demo to public sector IT pros to show how services can be constructed from hosted components with a management layer on top—and of course, with one security feature piled atop another.
Nicole Hemsoth
“But There is No HPC in the Cloud”
Post Date: November 19, 2010 @ 4:00 AM, Pacific Standard Time
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While making the rounds during SC10 and striking up conversations with those in traditional HPC fields, it was hard to ignore statements of skepticism about the possibility for broad cloud adoption for HPC applications outside of the few apps that are well-suited already. For every cloud advocate there seemed to be a detractor...
Nicole Hemsoth
SC10 Video Short: Kathy Yelick on Lawrence Berkeley National Labs and NERSC Projects
Post Date: November 19, 2010 @ 3:51 AM, Pacific Standard Time
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We often write about some of the interesting cloud computing research projects taking place via Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and NERSC, so when we had a chance to record Kathy Yelick,, NERSC Director at SC10, we took the opportunity to help put a face to the name and lend insight into what's happening at one of the more prominent national centers in cloud and HPC research.
Nicole Hemsoth
Fighting Words from the Interconnect World
Post Date: November 19, 2010 @ 3:08 AM, Pacific Standard Time
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To say the market share for HPC interconnects is imbalanced is a rather dramatic understatement since the vast majority of business is driven by Mellanox. However, there are a few emerging competitors who might be playing a more prominent role in HPC--and by proxy, cloud computing.
Nicole Hemsoth
Sights and Sounds of SC10
Post Date: November 17, 2010 @ 12:21 PM, Pacific Standard Time
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Since we have plenty of time and room to grant coverage to the technical topics on the agenda at SC10, we thought we'd give those of you who couldn't make it to New Orleans a light sampling of some of the sights and sounds from the first day of the conference. A little off topic? Yes, indeed.
Nicole Hemsoth
Introduction to the First Annual HPC in the Cloud Editors’ Choice Awards
Post Date: November 10, 2010 @ 2:03 AM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: Behind the Cloud
This year HPC in the Cloud announced the winners for its first annual Editors' Choice award, which pulled together our top eight picks for the year, forming not only a "who to watch" list but also recognizing a handful of vendors for their commitment to improving the cloud for scientific and large-scale enterprise users.
Nicole Hemsoth
More from the 2010 Editors’ Choice Winners Circle; Photo Highlights
Post Date: November 10, 2010 @ 1:58 AM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: Behind the Cloud
This year marked our first Editors' Choice awards in which we selected a number of vendors who have shown remarkable commitment to the cloud ecosystem via research, outreach and demonstrated service to end users. We leave you with some details on the other winners and some photo highlights from the award presentations.
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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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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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Datapipe and Verne Global's Green Cloud
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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
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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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