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Bruce Maches
Adoption of SaaS in the Life Sciences
Post Date: February 28, 2011 @ 12:27 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: Behind the Cloud
In this entry Bruce Maches takes a high-level look at SaaS and how it can be leveraged by these organizations to help them meet their research objectives in a more cost effective and timely manner.
Nicole Hemsoth
The High-Tech Farm Report: Cloud Computing Comes to Agriculture
Post Date: February 21, 2011 @ 9:35 AM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: Behind the Cloud
Both agriculture research and practice are seeing some benefits from advancements in cloud-based tools and platforms. From hosting of agricultural GPS data to aid in conservation to commercial farm companies, cloud computing and agriculture are merging.
Wolfgang Gentzsch
Upcoming Event to Explore the Role of Clouds in HPC
Post Date: February 15, 2011 @ 9:43 AM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: Behind the Cloud
The remarkable success of the first international ISC Cloud’10 Conference held last October in Frankfurt, Germany, has motivated ISC Events to continue this series and organize a similar cloud computing conference this year, with an even more profound focus on the use of clouds for High Performance Computing (HPC).
Joshua Geist
Telecom Sector Embraces the Cloud
Post Date: February 11, 2011 @ 8:19 AM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: Behind the Cloud
The cloud rush is on, and it’s no longer a one or two team race to the finish line to see who can claim the number one spot. The traditional “big boys” have some new players to contend with, ones with deep pockets, strong, trusted brands, and massive embedded customer bases.
Nicole Hemsoth
Higher Ed Budget Cuts Spur Cloud Services Scramble
Post Date: February 09, 2011 @ 8:04 AM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: Behind the Cloud
As the cloud becomes a more commonplace, trusted way to handle needs on a university or university system-wide scale, new ways to manage demand, priority, access and concerns about (de)centralization must be developed.
Steve Campbell
Big Telcos Seeing Silver Lining
Post Date: February 02, 2011 @ 1:11 AM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: Behind the Cloud
It is only the beginning of the week and we have already seen two major telcos emerge from the ether to snatch up cloud computing and datacenter companies Terremark and NaviSite. This will be a trend that will continue as these companies realize the true potential of solid infrastructure and the systems to support clouds...
Nicole Hemsoth
The Enemies of Interoperability
Post Date: February 01, 2011 @ 11:27 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: Behind the Cloud
Although interoperability remains a hot topic in debates about cloud providers and end user needs, there is little hope on the horizon for true standards to emerge anytime in the near future. We discussed this issue with John Considine, CTO and founder of CloudSwitch.
Bruce Maches
Ushering Biotech Firms into the Cloud
Post Date: February 01, 2011 @ 9:15 AM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: Behind the Cloud
Biotech firms require vast computational resources and for those smaller companies, this means maximizing current infrastructure and processes as much as possible. Bruce Maches weighs in one a recent implementation, looking at the challenges and possibilities for these companies.
Nicole Hemsoth
IBM Fueling Data Center Development in APAC
Post Date: January 25, 2011 @ 8:27 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: Behind the Cloud
This week IBM announced another addition in its string of cloud computing data center initiatives rooted in the Asia-Pacific region. This brings the company to over $100 million in investment in APAC as analyst figures continue to match this sense of hope for the region's vast market.
Jake Sorofman
Consider the Source: The Myth of the False Cloud
Post Date: January 21, 2011 @ 7:38 AM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: Behind the Cloud
It’s important to acknowledge that all of this hullaballoo around clouds may be an issue of semantics. Ultimately, it doesn’t much matter if you call this internal elastic infrastructure a cloud, a grid or some other such thing...
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Earl J. Dodd, President of Ideas And Machines, Inc. and i3D Inc.
Independent HPC consultant for cluster, grid, and cloud computing, and for data and compute-intensive applications, and General Chair of the ISC Cloud Conference.
Dr. Jose Luis Vazquez-Poletti is Assistant Professor in Computer Architecture at Complutense University of Madrid (Spain), and a Cloud Computing Researcher at the Distributed Systems Architecture Research Group. He is directly involved in EU funded projects, such as EGEE (Grid Computing) and 4CaaSt (PaaS Cloud), as well as many Spanish national initiatives.
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An HPC industry consultant and cloud evangelist, Steve Campbell is a seasoned senior HPC executive.
Former Director of Information Technology for Pfizer's R&D division, current CIO for BRMaches & Associates.
Sue Korn is a Senior Analyst at Intersect360 Research specializing in Edge HPC applications, and a 20-year veteran of the Financial Services Industry. In her role at Intersect360 Research, Korn spearheads the company's analysis of the drivers and barriers of HPC adoption in business environments and the growing role of Edge HPC applications.
Scott Clark has been an infrastructure solution provider in the EDA/Semiconductor industry for almost 20 years.
Ignacio M. Llorente, Ph.D in Computer Science (UCM) and Executive MBA (IE Business School), is a Full Professor in Computer Architecture and Technology, and the Head of the Distributed Systems Architecture Research Group at Complutense University of Madrid.
Joshua Geist is the founder and CEO of Geminare Incorporated, an innovator in cloud-based enablement technologies for the Recovery as a Service market. Combining a degree in Physics with over 20 years of technology experience, Joshua's passion lies in solving technology challenges for the mid-sized business market.
Miha Ahronovitz specializes in cloud software, products and business models and led product and business strategy for Sun Microsystem’s HPCGrid and Cloud division. Following Sun’s merger, Miha is now the Principal of Ahrono Associates.
Edward J. Lucente is V.P. of Business Development at Data Center Rebates, Inc., an IT efficiency consultancy based in Carlsbad, CA, whose professional services focus on data center energy efficiency (DCEE), leasing integrated with technology refreshes, and negotiation of IT energy rebates. (Ed is a rabid Red Sox fan also.)
Craig Lund is a consultant focused on specialized markets for High Performance Computing. He is best known from his many years as CTO of Mercury Computer Systems.
Jake is a software executive, writer and blogger. Based in Raleigh, North Carolina, he is currently the chief marketing officer for rPath. Feel free to contact Jake via email at jsorofman@rpath.com
Tom is the publisher of HPC in the Cloud. He has over 30 years of experience in business-to-business publishing, with the last 22 years focused primarily on High Productivity Computing (HPC) technologies.
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CERN, Google, and the Future of Global Science Initiatives
Large-scale, worldwide scientific initiatives rely on some cloud-based system to both coordinate efforts and manage computational efforts at peak times that cannot be contained within the combined in-house HPC resources. Last week at Google I/O, Brookhaven National Lab’s Sergey Panitkin discussed the role of the Google Compute Engine in providing computational support to ATLAS, a detector of high-energy particles at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
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Avoiding Scientific Computing Bottlenecks in the Cloud
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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Overcoming the Cloud Security Barrier for Financial Services
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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Short Takes
Running Computational Fluid Dynamics in the Cloud
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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In Support of Cloud-based Rendering
May 10, 2013 |
Australian visual effects company, Animal Logic, is considering a move to the public cloud.
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Internet2 Awards Program Seeks Innovative Applications
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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HPC and the True Cost of Cloud
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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