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Bringing Jobs to the Cloud...
Post Date: October 11, 2011 @ 8:22 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: Behind the Cloud

Steve Jobs has been an inspiration to many, but some argue that bringing that creativity and out-of-the-box thinking to emerging technology areas far outside of the mobile world can be of great value.

Jose Luis Vazquez-PolettiJose Luis Vazquez-Poletti
Cloud Computing in the Land of the Dragon
Post Date: September 21, 2011 @ 5:44 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: Behind the Cloud

Dr. Jose Luis Vazquez-Poletti shares insights about cloud computing in China following a recent trip and talk for the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Chinese institutions with an eye on the cloud.

Nicole HemsothNicole Hemsoth
ISC Cloud: Interview with Chairman Wolfgang Gentzsch
Post Date: September 12, 2011 @ 11:15 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: Behind the Cloud

ISC Cloud '11 in Mannheim, Germany is just around the corner. We caught up with the event's chairman, Wolfgang Getzsch to find out what to expect.

Steve CampbellSteve Campbell
StackIQ Widens Net
Post Date: August 31, 2011 @ 6:19 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: Behind the Cloud

Steve Campbell spent time this week speaking with Tim McIntyre from StackIQ, which was once called ClusterCorp.

Nicole HemsothNicole Hemsoth
HPC Clouds to Gather Over Germany
Post Date: August 09, 2011 @ 12:17 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
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The upcoming ISC Cloud '11 conference will bring some the world’s research and large-scale enterprise cloud computing luminaries under one roof to discuss issues ranging from HPC cloud performance, to security and compliance, to explorations of user experiences.

Nicole HemsothNicole Hemsoth
LANL Sends Environmental Management to the Cloud
Post Date: July 19, 2011 @ 6:18 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: Behind the Cloud

Los Alamos National Lab recently announced their contract with Locus Technologies to outsource environmental management to a cloud-based service provider. We spoke with Locus CEO, Neno Duplan about what LANL might gain--and how this provides an interesting software as a service use case.

Nicole HemsothNicole Hemsoth
What’s Behind the Cloud Power?
Post Date: June 26, 2011 @ 11:08 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
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Microsoft's cloud power has brought cloud computing closer to home, but what are the real associations for the source of that power when considered in the context of a license-based IT giant?

Nicole HemsothNicole Hemsoth
Cloud-Based Drug Discovery Platforms Proliferate
Post Date: June 18, 2011 @ 3:12 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: Behind the Cloud

As pharmaceutical companies grow more comfortable with the cloud concept, services providing outsourcing of discovery and collaboration are set to grow.

Nicole HemsothNicole Hemsoth
An Impetus for Big Data Clouds
Post Date: May 20, 2011 @ 9:43 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: Behind the Cloud

Big data and cloud computing are often being used in the same sentence, even though there are still some barriers that separate the two. We talked to Vineet Tyagi from Impetus Technologies to learn more...

Scott ClarkScott Clark
New Season, Same Umbrella
Post Date: May 16, 2011 @ 11:27 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: Behind the Cloud

Scott Clark argues that the more similar that we can make cloud infrastructures to the enterprise infrastructures we have today, the more comfortable customers will be with using cloud from a security perspective.

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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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Research Roundup: Toward a More Efficient Cloud

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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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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Exploring the Potential of Heterogeneous Computing

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