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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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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.

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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.”

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