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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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Miha Ahronovitz
Virtualization is Not Cloud...But Does Make It Shine
Post Date: August 31, 2010 @ 1:29 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: Behind the Cloud

Virtualization does not a cloud make, but it does certainly aid with the advancement and wider adoption of cloud computing across the business and research spectrum. Initially emerging as a business decision, virtualization has now developed a life of its own both within and independent of the cloud model.

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Steve Campbell
In the Flesh? Reflections from the Flash Memory Summit
Post Date: August 31, 2010 @ 8:33 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: Behind the Cloud

SSDs are worth it if they are dedicated to data that's read frequently, such as information in a database or popular multimedia content. However, what's most popular can change over time, and not all the data in a particular LUN (logical unit number) may qualify.

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