The Belle at Amazon's EC2 Ball

Oct 06, 2010 | TechGoondu | While Amazon’s cloud offering is not a fit for all scientific HPC applications, even if the datasets were smaller in size, Belle II is one example that demonstrates the decision to avoid upfront hardware investments in favor of a no-investment option that can scale as research demands ebb and flow.
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Powering HPC Locally and in the Cloud with 10 GbE

Oct 05, 2010 | The Server Room | Tom Statchura from Intel attended the IDF 2010 in San Francisco this year where he aided in the demonstration of an ideal scenario for HPC in the cloud—what is most frequently referred to as “bursting” to gain additional capacity.
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Bridging the Cloud-Based Application Divide

Sep 28, 2010 | NetworkWorld | Moving applications to the cloud can create security issues but for many developers, there is not time or in-house expertise to help handle the shift. Organizations could be left with software that is not ready to perform securely in a virtualized environment.
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Startup Aims to Democratize Genomic Research

Sep 28, 2010 | TechCrunch | A startup called SeqCentral has stated its goal to democratize science by using the cloud for genetic alignment of DNA sequences, which is a critical stage during the process of genetic research.
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NC State, IBM Researchers Send Hypervisor Security Into “Stealth Mode”

Sep 27, 2010 | Dark Reading | Researchers have created a security tool that works in stealth mode to monitor for hypervisor attacks without attackers being aware that such a tool is in place. The software functions outside of the hypervisor, which makes it difficult to detect by potential attackers.
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Amazon Extends EC2 Capabilities with New Features

Sep 27, 2010 | AWS Blog | The capabilities of EC2 continued to expand this week with the addition of filtering and resource tagging, in addition to what the company’s blog admits is the “somewhat esoteric yet very useful” feature called idempotent instance creation.
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Universities Looking to Dell for Cloud-Ready HPC

Sep 27, 2010 | Campus Technology | Dell recently announced that a handful of American universities would be implementing their cloud-ready PowerEdge C6100 high-density rack servers for research in the life and earth sciences and beyond.
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Weighing the Private Cloud Investment

Sep 16, 2010 | Enterprise Efficiency | Making sense of private cloud ROI is tricky business; for some, private clouds are a no-brainer following even a cursory cost analysis, for others this is never quite clear—just how much will be saved with an investment now (despite constrained budgets) over the course of say, five years—and will it be worth it?
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The Politics of Cloud Strategy

Sep 16, 2010 | Financial Express | During a Nasscom summit on remote infrastructure management this week, John C. McCarthy, a leading analyst from Forrester Research, stated that “offering a cloud strategy to customers in the United States is a politically correct alternative to offshoring given the current climate,” which is more "palatable" politically.
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RNA Research Receives Boost from Amazon Cloud

Sep 14, 2010 | Johns Hopkins University Gazette | Researchers from the Bloomberg School of Health at Johns Hopkins Universities have refined the time and ost efficiency of analyzing data from RNA sequencing projects via their new "Myrna" software, which makes us Amazon's cloud resources.
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Legacy Computing and the Dulled Competitive Edge

Sep 10, 2010 | All Things Digital | Echoing the Council on Competitiveness and its statement that HPC is a cornerstone of economic well-being and leadership, NVIDIA's Andrew Keane suggests that America is lagging behind in the key areas it once dominated, and that once we have fallen back, climbing back to the top is a laborious, if not nearly impossible task.
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NSF Awards $32 Million in Grants to Fund the Future Internet

Sep 10, 2010 | Network World | The National Science Foundation announced a round of grant funding to support research into cloud computing (with an emphasis on security and privacy) as well as new paradigm shifts for internet use, including mobile device optimization and network reliability.
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Microsoft Extends Cloud Services to Qatar

Sep 09, 2010 | Gulf Times | Microsoft is preparing to launch its cloud services in Qatar with an eye on providing resources to enterprises in the country. On the list of targets include companies in the energy and finance sectors as well as confirmed partnerships with telecom firms.
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EU Funds Large-Scale Project to Build Cloud Research Center

Sep 09, 2010 | OpenNebula | BonFIRE is a 8.5 million-Euro project “aimed at designing, building and operating a multi-cloud facility to support applications, services and systems research targeting the Internet of Services community within the Future Internet.”
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Europe’s BiG Grid Looks to Cloud Enhancements for e-Science Research

Sep 09, 2010 | International Science and Grid Weekly | The BiG Grid project in the Netherlands is seeking to advance from its grid roots in order to be more flexible to meet the needs of its user base of European researchers. Accordingly, the project is making part of its hardware cloud accessible.
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Oracle Placing GridEngine on New Track

Sep 03, 2010 | Linux Magazine | The Sun GridEngine, now the Oracle GridEngine has been a key open source staple for several HPC users for years. As Oracle takes a closer look at the product's potential for cloud and other uses, the future of its status as open source has been put into serious question.
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Hybrid Workflow Model at Heart of Tornado Research

Sep 02, 2010 | International Science Grid This Week | The Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms undertook a hybrid computing project called the “Linked Environments for Atmospheric Discovery II” (LEAD II) with the help of the Big Red cluster and Microsoft’s Azure to better predict tornado conditions and to aid in the advancement of VORTEX2 goals.
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What CERN Can Teach Enterprises About Computing, Collaboration

Sep 02, 2010 | Horses for Sources | A new research project from the London School of Economics and HfS is examining the lessons that enterprise can learn from the collaborative, distributed CERN computing (and cultural) environment.
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Application Flexibility and the New Enterprise Architecture

Aug 31, 2010 | ComputerWorld | Application delivery strategies must be shaped with flexibility in mind as the number of platforms delivering core applications is bound to change with time. Since a greater number of devices and platforms are entering the infrastructure mix, those who do not adapt quickly face being locked into strategies that do not mesh well with new developments.
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A Maturation Stage for Storage Virtualization

Aug 27, 2010 | Processor.com | Storage virtualization has been gaining momentum as it moves from concept to practice but some suggest the offerings in this realm have not matured sufficiently and require a longer maturation process before wider adoption occurs.
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HP Seeks to Boost Cloud Service Automation Capability

Aug 27, 2010 | Reuters | Although it was lost in the chaos of the 3PAR bidding war between, HP announced news that it acquired cloud service automation firm Stratavia to bolster its cloud management offering and further its strategy in the arena.
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NASA CIO Weighs in on Nebula, Public Clouds

Aug 26, 2010 | O'Reilly | In an interview from the NASA IT Summit last week, the agency's CIO, Linda Cureton weighs in on developments with Nebula platform and the adoption of the open source code by other agencies looking to the cloud.
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Facing the Realities of Private Cloud Building

Aug 24, 2010 | PCWorld | While private clouds are getting far more attention than they received at the beginning of the cloud buzz boom, the realities of the complexities of actual building them--not to mention the financial and time investments--are often overlooked.
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Putting Cloud Storage to the Test

Aug 23, 2010 | Network World | While cloud storage might live up to the hype in terms of cost models, some argue that storage vendors need to enhance their security measures to ensure wider adoption.
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A “Disruptive Change” for CAD and CAE

Aug 23, 2010 | DesignNews | Computer-aided design and engineering applications are not reputed for their ability to function well in cloud for a host of technical reasons but there are increasing efforts underway to deliver cloud-ready CAD and CAE offerings.
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