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Nicole Hemsoth
2010 Cloud Security Innovators: Tie—IBM and Novell
Post Date: November 10, 2010 @ 12:55 AM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: Behind the Cloud
Cloud security innovation goes far beyond providing a particular product that works well or has been widely adopted. IBM and Novell have been selected as innovators due to the research efforts they've led to create more secure cloud enviornments.
Nicole Hemsoth
2010 Cloud Education and Outreach Innovators: Microsoft
Post Date: November 09, 2010 @ 10:49 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: Behind the Cloud
While Microsoft has a solid platform and several tools in place for scientific users, one arena where the company certainly stands out is in their mission to engage and education the vast "missing middle" of potential cloud users. Others, like IBM are in close running for such an award, but the Redmond giant has been prolific and notable in its engagement efforts.
Nicole Hemsoth
2010 Cloud Platform Innovators: Amazon Web Services
Post Date: November 09, 2010 @ 10:07 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: Behind the Cloud
While it's oftentimes worthwhile to present awards to those who are providing a remarkable or innovative service yet still fly under the radar, when it comes to cloud platform leaders, sometimes going with the "obvious" choice is the only option--and for good reason.
Nicole Hemsoth
2010 Cloud Innovation Leader Award: Platform Computing
Post Date: November 09, 2010 @ 7:21 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: Behind the Cloud
This year HPC in the Cloud presented its first annual Editors' Choice Awards in Santa Clara, California. Platform Computing was selected for one such award due to its long-standing commitment to grids, clusters and the evolution of both into cloud computing.
Nicole Hemsoth
rPath on IT and Cloud Challenges, Argonne Successes
Post Date: November 04, 2010 @ 12:33 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
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rPath's Jake Sorofman took a few moments during Cloud Expo to discuss the tensions in IT in the post-public cloud era between IT control and demands from users in addition to discussing a case study in brief at Argonne National Lab.
Nicole Hemsoth
Selecting the Right "aaS": Hubspan's Margaret Dawson on Compliance and As-a-Service Choices
Post Date: November 03, 2010 @ 5:50 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
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Following her session on choosing the right aaS for individual purposes, Vice President of Product Management, Margaret Dawson discusses the concept of B2B integration, security and compliance for risk-averse verticals like life sciences research and financial services.
Nicole Hemsoth
Reid Smith from Savvis on Delivering High Performance Clouds
Post Date: November 03, 2010 @ 4:18 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
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This week at Cloud Expo I spent some time talking to Reid Smith from Savvis about the range of cloud services and the role networks play within them for enterprise customers outside of financial services where low latency is not the top priority. We also touched on what makes clouds high performance and attractive to a range of potential users.
Nicole Hemsoth
Of Hype and Hypervisors: Abiquo CEO Talks Enterprise Cloud Management
Post Date: November 03, 2010 @ 3:48 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
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This week at Cloud Expo I caught up with Pete Malcolm, CEO of enterprise cloud management company, Abiquo to discuss cloud hype and what this means for cloud companies his own. We also touched on matters of agnostic hypervisors and vendor lock-in.
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.
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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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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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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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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
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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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