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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...
Miha Ahronovitz
Univa Revving the Grid Engine Revival
Post Date: January 18, 2011 @ 6:10 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: Behind the Cloud
As a former product manager for Grid Engine, the news that Univa is rescuing the popular distributed resource management software is welcome, especially considering the leadership and development team behind the revival.
Nicole Hemsoth
Startup IaaS Provider Poised to Empower Developers, Compete in On-Demand Arena
Post Date: January 12, 2011 @ 4:19 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: Behind the Cloud
Startup NephoScale came out of the woodwork today with an offering designed to get developers up and running without the need for delays caused by system administrator configuration.
Scott Clark
Key Trends on the Horizon for HPC Clouds in 2011
Post Date: January 10, 2011 @ 9:28 AM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: Behind the Cloud
From infrastructure management to evolution in networks, storage paradigms and the compute landscape, Scott Clark puts forth a host of predictions for how cloud computing for HPC will shape up over the course of the new year.
Steve Campbell
High Hopes: Live from Storage Visions 2011
Post Date: January 05, 2011 @ 5:53 AM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: Behind the Cloud
Steve Campbell checks in from Las Vegas, home of Storage Visions, a two-day event in advance of the Consumer Electronics Show.
Bruce Maches
Cloud at the Heart of Biotech Startups
Post Date: January 03, 2011 @ 8:43 AM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: Behind the Cloud
It is not just big biotech companies that can leverage cloud computing; smaller early stage companies are also taking advantage of what cloud computing has to offer to cut costs, reduce complexity and ensure that resources are focused on the primary goals of the organization.
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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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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
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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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Australian visual effects company, Animal Logic, is considering a move to the public cloud.
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