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Dec 13, 2010 |
PharmTech | This week at Pharmtech, Arun Kumar, Vice President and Head of the Global Life Sciences Business Unit at Infosys, an IT, business and consulting firm, discussed how the cloud is shaping the pharmaceutical industry--and what is coming in 2011.
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Dec 10, 2010 |
ZDNet | Microsoft has announced it is extending another round of free access to its Azure cloud platform, this time to scientific research projects in Australia.
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Dec 06, 2010 |
DZTimes | IBM announced that it would team up with Vietnam’s National Institute of Software and Digital Content Industry (NISCI) to provide the necessary hardware and software components for a new cloud computing lab.
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Dec 02, 2010 |
AMD | This week, John Fruehe, AMD’s Director of Product Marketing for Server, Embedded and Firestream Products was asked if the company had set its sights on a special brand of Bobcat-based multi-core CPUs designed with cloud datacenters in mind.
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Dec 02, 2010 |
YouTube (Huang Interview) | According to NVIDIA, the company is seeking to branch out with CUDA, extending it to power mobile devices of all sizes in order to allow for a richer assortment of multimedia-heavy applications.
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Nov 30, 2010 |
Internet Evolution | Long-time technology markets investor Dan Gordon speculated on the way clouds are shaping the possibility of a "world computer" and highlighted some of the ways cloud computing as we know it could be changing.
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Nov 29, 2010 |
Benzinga | Mobile application sophistication and the power of the cloud to store the wealth of data users can now collect from a range of devices are driving new possibilities in healthcare and beyond.
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Nov 23, 2010 |
NetworkComputing | A number of vendors are looking for ways to improve their current data center offerings to make them more attractive to enterprises looking to invest in hardware but with the possibility of bursting into the cloud or making use of the private cloud model from the outset.
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Nov 23, 2010 |
PCWorld | The European Union has announced that it will be funding a three-year project to examine a wide range of technical and policy-driven initiatives focused on securing clouds.
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Nov 09, 2010 |
Gartner | Today an analyst from Gartner highlighted his views on the impending emergence of cloud brokerage services for companies who are eager to explore cloud computing but require expertise to make sure their solutions are complaint, secure and function properly.
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Nov 09, 2010 |
UO News | The university’s system, which will be an Applied Computational Instrument for Scientific Synthesis (ACISS) will be installed in the Computing Center and shared by a wide array of departments to meet the goals of integrative science projects.
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Nov 08, 2010 |
MIT Technology Review | As mobile applications and devices continue to grow in terms of sheer numbers and complexity, traditional software vendors like Microsoft will be well-served by staying ahead of the game. Enterprise applications built for mobility are increasing in number and use--a trend that will be changing the face of IT in coming years.
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Nov 08, 2010 |
CIO.gov | This week the federal government in the U.S. released a comprehensive set of guidelines for agencies considering moving some of their operations to the cloud that provides a baseline for evaluating and approving cloud providers.
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Oct 29, 2010 |
TechNet | Microsoft's Dan Reed recently explained the theoretical basis for the company's latest push to open the clouds for scientific users who require high-performance computing but who are often bound by cost constraints and the need to shed the systems maintenance overhead.
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Oct 27, 2010 |
CIO Magazine | Languages like R and MATLAB, which were once unofficially reserved for technical computing domains are slowly finding their way into enterprises due to the rise in demand for large-scale data analytics. This demand is coupled with recent announcements about cloud-based ways to use these languages, opening new doors to access and use.
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Oct 25, 2010 |
DatacenterKnowledge | In terms of enterprise HPC cloud adoption, the pharmaceutical industry is a relative leader due to its need to reduce time to market via the on-demand, scalable access to resources on a pay-as-you-go basis. The computational strategies are well-suited to cloud in other ways as well, as CloudSwitch founder Ellen Rubin explains.
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Oct 22, 2010 |
NASA Nebula | This week NASA announced the pre-release for its Nebula-powered Cloud Services for internal personnel, bringing an end to the beta period and spawning an era of new experimentation with a cloud platform for agency research.
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Oct 21, 2010 |
UC Santa Barbara, College of Engineering | A new research effort is underway at UCSB's Terabit Optical Ethernet Center (TOEC). A research team with notable industry partners is working to bring the goal of energy-efficient 1 Terabit Ethernet to life in the next five years.
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Oct 20, 2010 |
Plastics Today | Autodesk, makers of software for engineers and designers, has slowly been rolling out an increasingly long list of applications that are cloud-ready via their own dedicated servers. The company is attempting to make access and use of their software easier while granting it to a broader range of users.
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Oct 19, 2010 |
EurekaScience | The National Science Foundation has granted $3 million to three American universities as they seek to unravel the complex relationship between cloud security and privacy in the context of service-level agreements.
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Oct 19, 2010 |
Florida Atlantic University | While the market is already flooded with books about cloud computing, Springer has released The Handbook of Cloud Computing, which provides insights from experts in academia, laboratories and enterprise into a solid, detailed reference work with information for HPC cloud use.
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Oct 13, 2010 |
Montreal Gazette | IBM has taken a proactive role to fulfill its "Smarter Planet" objectives for healthcare via improvements in the delivery of health information to clinicians and researchers. In the midst of security concerns about cloud and patient information, the company is still looking for ways to refine healthcare information sharing and collaboration.
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Oct 13, 2010 |
EdTech | What began at IU as an infrastructure virtualization project to improve efficiency has been blooming into a more comprehensive iprivate cloud project that’s allowed for even greater operational efficiency as well as benefits for a wide range of departments.
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Oct 11, 2010 |
PhysOrg | Recent research from the University of Melbourne indicates that in many cases, the cloud is not the "greenest" option due to data transfer energy consumption. The authors argue that prior studies have over looked transfer in their findings.
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Oct 08, 2010 |
Information Week | Lawrence Berkeley National Lab's CIO, Rosio Alvarez, who works jointly with the DOE to make recommendations about the efficiency and availability of supercomputer and cluster resources, discusses cloud projects and key takeaways to deliver to government leaders.
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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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The private industry least likely to adopt public cloud services for data storage are financial institutions. Holding the most sensitive and heavily-regulated of data types, personal financial information, banks and similar institutions are mostly moving towards private cloud services – and doing so at great cost.
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In this week's hand-picked assortment, researchers explore the path to more energy-efficient cloud datacenters, investigate new frameworks and runtime environments that are compatible with Windows Azure, and design a unified programming model for diverse data-intensive cloud computing paradigms.
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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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May 10, 2013 |
Australian visual effects company, Animal Logic, is considering a move to the public cloud.
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May 10, 2013 |
Program provides cash awards up to $10,000 for the best open-source end-user applications deployed on 100G network.
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May 08, 2013 |
For engineers looking to leverage high-performance computing, the accessibility of a cloud-based approach is a powerful draw, but there are costs that may not be readily apparent.
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05/10/2013 | Cleversafe, Cray, DDN, NetApp, & Panasas | From Wall Street to Hollywood, drug discovery to homeland security, companies and organizations of all sizes and stripes are coming face to face with the challenges – and opportunities – afforded by Big Data. Before anyone can utilize these extraordinary data repositories, however, they must first harness and manage their data stores, and do so utilizing technologies that underscore affordability, security, and scalability.
04/02/2012 | AMD | Developers today are just beginning to explore the potential of heterogeneous computing, but the potential for this new paradigm is huge. This brief article reviews how the technology might impact a range of application development areas, including client experiences and cloud-based data management. As platforms like OpenCL continue to evolve, the benefits of heterogeneous computing will become even more accessible. Use this quick article to jump-start your own thinking on heterogeneous computing.