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Convey Teams with Nimbix to Deliver Hybrid-Core Computing to the Cloud

Nov 14, 2011 | Convey Computer is partnering with Nimbix to deliver Convey's unique hybrid-core architecture and bioinformatics personalities as a cloud-based HPC solution.
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Scyld ClusterWare, Adaptive Computing's Moab HPC Suite Power Leading Edge Research

Nov 14, 2011 | Advanced cluster and workload management capabilities allow for optimized throughput and fair resource sharing for genomic sequencing jobs.
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Three DOE Labs Now Connected with Ultra-High Speed Network

Nov 14, 2011 | The U.S. Department of Energy is now supporting scientific research at unprecedented bandwidth speeds – at least ten times faster than commercial Internet providers – with a new network that connects thousands of researchers using three of the world's top supercomputing centers in California, Illinois, and Tennessee.
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HPC Advisory Council Reaches Publication of over 150 Best Practices and Guidelines for HPC, Cloud Applications

Nov 14, 2011 | The HPC Advisory Council has reached over 150 best practices and installation guidelines for over 40 high-performance applications.
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SCinet Research Sandbox Shows Off Groundbreaking Network Research

Nov 14, 2011 | This week, SC11 will not just showcase the next generation of HPC applications but it will also be home to eleven of the most innovative network research projects through a special program called the SCinet Research Sandbox.
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Orange Silicon Valley, ESnet, IBTA and OpenFabrics Alliance Demo Long Distance, Multi-Stream 40Gbps RDMA Data Transfers at SC11

Nov 14, 2011 | Demo leverages ESnet's transcontinental Advanced Networking Research Initiative (ANI) testbed and multi-vendor participation to demonstrate RDMA-enabled data transfer, spanning approximately 7,000 miles.
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Ethernet Alliance Showcases Ethernet Technologies at SC11

Nov 14, 2011 | Integrated multi-vendor demo highlights how Ethernet's ability to effortlessly meet datacenter needs is fundamentally altering the face of HPC.
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New Globus Online Product Simplifies File Transfer On Campus Servers and Clusters

Nov 11, 2011 | "Globus Connect Multi-User" is part of comprehensive partner program for research institutions.
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Linux Labs Completes Development Milestone for Its Super Computer Operating System, NimbusOs

Nov 11, 2011 | Searchlight Solutions Ltd. announces its subsidiary, Linux Labs International, Inc., has recently completed a key developmental milestone for its proprietary NimbusOS, the operating system for its High Performance Cloud Computing ("HPC2") service and Supercomputing cluster computer products.
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Adaptive Computing Delivers Intelligent Grid Resource Management to NOAA's New Climate Modeling and Research System

Nov 10, 2011 | Adaptive Computing announced that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), in conjunction with Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) has selected Moab HPC Suite as the intelligent grid resource management solution for existing and future NOAA HPC sites.
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Dell Commits Funding, Cloud Technology and Employee Engagement to Fight Neuroblastoma and Other Pediatric Cancers

Nov 10, 2011 | Dell donates cloud capability to assist TGen and NMTRC/VARI in their clinical research to identify targeted treatments for children fighting the deadliest of pediatric cancers and to expand the reach and impact of the world's first personalized medicine clinical trial for pediatric cancer.
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Engine Yard Enhances Offering with High Availability and Database Capabilities

Nov 09, 2011 | These additions extend the Engine Yard platform to enable development teams to innovate faster and build highly reliable, scalable applications in the cloud.
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Morphlabs Launches Dynamic Resource Scaling Technology

Nov 09, 2011 | On-demand cloud bursting supports enterprises in "bursting" additional workload to an external cloud, locally or via carrier Ethernet exchanges.
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GigaSpaces Releases Its Elastic Application Platform as a CA AppLogic Appliance

Nov 09, 2011 | Businesses can buy, deploy, secure and manage enterprise class cloud infrastructure for mission-critical applications.
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SunGard, University of Texas at Austin Partner to Create Cloud Computing Research Center

Nov 09, 2011 | SunGard Availability Services announced a partnership with the University of Texas at Austin to create a Cloud Computing Research Center.
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RENCI to Highlight International Data Grids at SC11

Nov 09, 2011 | The RENCI/North Carolina booth will be one of several on the SC11 show floor to participate in a demonstration that will connect booths in the Washington State Convention Center with large data sets in the US and Europe, creating a distributed, high-speed international data grid that allows researchers to share, store and manage large data sets.
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Mellanox to Showcase and Present I/O Solutions at SC11

Nov 09, 2011 | Mellanox Technologies announced it will present and showcase its FDR 56Gb/s InfiniBand and 40GbE I/O solutions at SC11 in Seattle, Wash., (November 14-18, 2011) in booth #522.
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StackIQ Solves the Big Infrastructure Management Problem with Release of Rocks+ 6.0

Nov 08, 2011 | StackIQ announced the immediate availability of Rocks+ 6, the comprehensive software suite for automating the deployment and management of Big Infrastructure.
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SoftLayer, RightScale Team Up to Accelerate Deployment, Automation and Management of Workloads Across Cloud Infrastructures

Nov 08, 2011 | Collaboration and integration gives customers the power to manage workloads on SoftLayer's global cloud infrastructure using the RightScale Cloud Management Platform.
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CloudSigma Launches First SSD Storage Product in Public Cloud IaaS

Nov 08, 2011 | CloudSigma launched the industry's first solid-state drive (SSD) storage solution for a public cloud IaaS environment at the 2011 Cloud Computing Expo.
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Bright Computing Extends Cluster Management Capabilities into the Cloud

Nov 08, 2011 | Bright Computing announced that Bright Cluster Manager 6.0 will include comprehensive support for cloud bursting.
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Platform Computing Announces Support for Upcoming Intel Many Integrated Core Architecture-Based Products

Nov 08, 2011 | Users of Platform HPC, Platform LSF and Platform Cluster Manager will benefit from additional power for processing HPC applications.
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Tabor Communications Launches Big Data Publication

Nov 08, 2011 | Tabor Communications Inc., (TCI) publisher of HPCwire, HPC in the Cloud, Digital Manufacturing Report, and a leading international media, advertising, and communications company, today announced the launch of a new publication titled Datanami.
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Rackspace Cloud: Private Edition Bringing OpenStack to Datacenters Worldwide

Nov 07, 2011 | Ecosystem of certified deployment and technology partners Deploying Rackspace Cloud: Private Edition using the reference architecture that Rackspace published today in its continued commitment to share best practices and drive the industry forward.
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Red Hat Announces Cloud Computing Alliance with SAIC

Nov 07, 2011 | Companies to deliver open source cloud computing solutions for U.S. Department of Defense.
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SLA-Aware Scheduling and Virtual Efficiency

Researchers from the Suddhananda Engineering and Research Centre in Bhubaneswar, India developed a job scheduling system, which they call Service Level Agreement (SLA) scheduling, that is meant to achieve acceptable methods of resource provisioning similar to that of potential in-house systems. They combined that with an on-demand resource provisioner to ensure utilization optimization of virtual machines.
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CloudSigma CEO Elaborates on Science Cloud

Experimental scientific HPC applications are continually being moved to the cloud, as covered here in several capacities over the last couple of weeks. Included in that rundown, Co-founder and CEO of CloudSigma Robert Jenkins penned an article for HPC in the Cloud where he discussed the emergence of cloud technologies to supplement research capabilities of big scientific initiatives like CERN and ESA (the European Space Agency)...
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Examining Questions of Virtualization and Security in the Cloud

When considering moving excess or experimental HPC applications to a cloud environment, there will always be obstacles. Were that not the case, the cost effectiveness of cloud-based HPC would rule the high performance landscape. Jonathan Stewart Ward and Adam Barker of the University of St. Andrews produced an intriguing report on the state of cloud computing, paying a significant amount of attention to the problems facing cloud computing.
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Hacking into the N-Queens Problem with Virtualization

Jun 19, 2013 | Ruan Pethiyagoda, Cameron Boehmer, John S. Dvorak, and Tim Sze, trained at San Francisco’s Hack Reactor, an institute designed for intense fast paced learning of programming, put together a program based on the N-Queens algorithm designed by the University of Cambridge’s Martin Richards, and modified it to run in parallel across multiple machines.
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Datapipe and Verne Global's Green Cloud

Jun 17, 2013 | With that in mind, Datapipe hopes to establish themselves as a green-savvy HPC cloud provider with their recently announced Stratosphere platform. Datapipe markets Stratosphere as a green HPC cloud service and in doing so partnering with Verne Global and their Icelandic datacenter, which is known for its propensity in green computing.
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IBM's Guide to Cloud Based HPC

Jun 12, 2013 | Cloud computing is gaining ground in utilization by mid-sized institutions who are looking to expand their experimental high performance computing resources. As such, IBM released what they call Redbooks, in part to assist institutions’ movement of high performance computing applications to the cloud.
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Best Practices in Big Data Storage

05/10/2013 | Cleversafe, Cray, DDN, NetApp, & Panasas | From Wall Street to Hollywood, drug discovery to homeland security, companies and organizations of all sizes and stripes are coming face to face with the challenges – and opportunities – afforded by Big Data. Before anyone can utilize these extraordinary data repositories, however, they must first harness and manage their data stores, and do so utilizing technologies that underscore affordability, security, and scalability.

Exploring the Potential of Heterogeneous Computing

04/02/2012 | AMD | Developers today are just beginning to explore the potential of heterogeneous computing, but the potential for this new paradigm is huge. This brief article reviews how the technology might impact a range of application development areas, including client experiences and cloud-based data management. As platforms like OpenCL continue to evolve, the benefits of heterogeneous computing will become even more accessible. Use this quick article to jump-start your own thinking on heterogeneous computing.