Above the Clouds: An Interview with Armando Fox

Aug 02, 2011 | If you spend any time reading about scientific computing in the clouds, it is quite likely you have encountered the name Armando Fox at least once. Fox has been writing about cloud computing before the term ever emerged into mainstream computing speak and continues to be a prolific source of information about cutting-edge cloud computing research for scientific and technical computing.
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Research Targets Computational Experiments in the Cloud

Jul 27, 2011 | A team of researchers, with backing from Amazon Web Services, set about to explore the viability of running computational experiments on virtualized hardware--specifically, Amazon's public cloud. Their findings confirm that there are benefits but also explore some of the challenges that persist. We talk with one of the leads of the "experiment on experiments" to learn more.
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Dell Uses Force to Enhance Integrated Datacenter Portfolio

Jul 20, 2011 | Dell announced today that it intends to buy San Jose-based Force10 Networks, in part due to their Open Cloud Networking framework. The move represents a clear cloud datacenter-driven buy from Round Rock and signals what they hope will be more incentive for customers to see the value in integrated datacenter solutions.
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The New Era of Intelligent Application Mobility

Jul 19, 2011 | Duncan Johnston-Watt, founder & CEO of Cloudsoft describes the concept of intelligent application mobility and the new possibilities this signals via the ability to seamlessly move applications across clouds and locations.
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Microsoft Brings MapReduce into the Fold

Jul 18, 2011 | Microsoft announced this week that it would be offering its Project Daytona up for scrutiny--an iterative MapReduce framework that they hope will bring researchers flocking to their cloud service.
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IBM Partnership “Brokers” Disease Research Breakthrough

Jul 14, 2011 | IBM partnered with Swiss startup CloudBroker to provide the high performance cloud computing resources needed to combat deadly, drug-resistant pathogens. The time to results produced pleasant surprises for the scientists and opens the door for services like CloudBroker to find inroads in research and enterprise.
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Unlocking the Potential of HPC Cloud Computing

Jul 05, 2011 | Arpit Joshipura from Force10 Networks describes the requirements for cloud networking at the compute, network, and storage layers for HPC data centers and explores the concept of an open cloud networking framework.
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Blue Gene Sniffs for Black Gold in the Cloud

Jun 27, 2011 | Dr. Manish Parashar describes the winning supercomputing as a service project from Rutgers University that demonstrates how to connecting two IBM Blue Gene/P systems in two different continents to form a large HPC cloud using the CometCloud framework.
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Toward a Fault-Tolerant Cloud

Jun 23, 2011 | With the proliferation of public cloud infrastructures, our dependability on them has increased. Many of our vital services pertaining to the research, industry or even lifestyle domain have been massively moved onto the cloud. Then, what happens when the cloud services we are depending on go down? Dr. Jose Luis Vazquez-Poletti shares some key aspects on how the scientific community can provide answers to this problem.
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Video Interview: The AMD Path to HPC Clouds

Jun 16, 2011 | This week at the AMD Fusion Developer Summit we sat down with AMD's Margaret Lewis to discuss the role the chipmaker will play in the high-performance clouds of the future, how its Opteron has served as a cloud datacenter foundation, and what the future holds following the introduction of Bulldozer later this year.
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European Cloud Projects Center Stage in Timisoara

Jun 13, 2011 | Dr. Jose Luis Vazquez-Poletti highlights a number of notable cloud computing research efforts that received attention during the Second Workshop on Software Services: Cloud Computing and Applications based on Software Services held last week in Timisoara.
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IBM Tunes Clouds for HPC Verticals

Jun 09, 2011 | IBM announced the first of its industry-specific HPC cloud offerings today with its Engineering Cloud, which is provided without virtualization performance overhead and a host of tools to cater to EDA, manufacturing and beyond.
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Plume Rises Over Oil and Gas Industry

Jun 08, 2011 | Finding case studies that highlight cloud computing, especially using public cloud or multitenant resources, is no easy task. To take the temperature of the industry's willingness to consider outsourcing some of their HPC, we talked to Rigstar and Marlabs who have put together a cloud tailored to the unique concerns of oil and gas customers.
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Will Community Clouds Float on Wall Street?

Jun 03, 2011 | The technology division for the New York Stock Exchange's parent company has announced a community cloud for the financial services industry. The platform, set to come out of beta at the beginning of July could teach enterprises some valuable lessons about shared resources--for better or for worse.
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ClusterTech CEO Shines Light on China’s HPC Clouds

Jun 01, 2011 | This week we discussed high performance computing and the arrival of clouds in China with physics scholar-turned-CEO Wai-Mo Suen. Dr. Suen provides insights about the future of cloud-enabled HPC and presents a sense of some key differences between cloud computing in China versus other areas.
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Grid Engine Gets a PaaS

May 24, 2011 | Grid Engine's new caretaker, Univa, announced a partnership with Eucalyptus Systems to bring managablility to HPC cloud users. This week we spoke with CEO of Univa, Gary Tyreman about what this means for Grid Engine users as they seek to allow the cloud to tackle some of their challenges.
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A Plateau of Productivity for Grids

May 23, 2011 | According to a recent report from Excelian, grid computing has finally "grown up" which provides a window for users in the financial services industry to consider (and reconsider) best practices for distributed computing and evaluate variations on old models.
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Bull's Market for HPC on Demand

May 18, 2011 | French high performance computing vendor Bull announced its HPC cloud service, eXtreme Factory at SC10, emphasizing its value for simulation-driven customers. This week we checked in on progress with the company's head of HPC, Pascal Barbolosi, to see how the platform has weathered its first six months.
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Video Feature: The Cloud's Criminal Element

May 17, 2011 | This week we sat down with cybercrime and cloud security expert Dr. Nir Kshetri to discuss key challenges for users and providers of cloud computing services. Kshetri provides some background on crimes delivered across networks, both economic and technological, and discusses some key legal and policy changes that could shape remote resources to come.
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Opening Sequences for HPC on Demand

May 11, 2011 | Next-generation sequencing has opened a world of possibilities for science and medicine, but for providers of remote high performance computing like Penguin Computing via its HPC on demand service, the new world of massive genomics analytics has opened other doors--for researchers and their own business model.
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Air Force, University of Illinois Take Aim at Cloud Challenges

May 09, 2011 | This week the University of Illinois, the Air Force Research Laboratory and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research launched a new initiative to tackle some of the most persistent security and data integrity related issues that plague the cloud. We discussed the effort and its projected outcomes with the project lead, Dr. Roy Campbell.
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Simulating Society at the Global Scale

May 06, 2011 | A group of European researchers is vying to create a distributed supercomputer of unprecedented scale to deploy real-time analytics from hundreds of streams (economic, social, environmental, medical and beyond) to arrive at a living, breathing simulation of life on earth.
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Licensing Blocks Path to HPC Cloud Business Development

May 11, 2011 | Earl Dodd explores the tense ecosystem that supports rapid development in high performance and cloud computing while still maintaining software licensing models that incapable of allowing high performance clouds to float above current constraints.
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Bad Moon Rises Over Cloud Perceptions

May 11, 2011 | It's a glorious day for those with backup and recovery services to pitch, not to mention for those who are nipping at the heels of Amazon Web Service's cloud empire. On the flip side, for those who just got word that their data is unrecoverable via a short letter, not to mention those who have been proclaiming cloud computing as the safe bet for mission critical applications--it's been quite a bleak morning.
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National Science Foundation Partnership Funds Cloud-Society Research

May 11, 2011 | The National Science Foundation (NSF) and Microsoft have selected thirteen cloud computing projects for monetary and infrastructure funding. From research focused on energy, sustainability, genomics, medicine and the IT systems themselves, these undertakings find innovative ways to maximize valuable data for the good of all.

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