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On Your Mark, Get Set, Squeeze

Dec 12, 2011 | The Pistoia Alliance is offering $15,000 to inspire better compression techniques for DNA sequence data.
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One Cloud to Rule Them All

Dec 06, 2011 | New York Times | Calit2's Larry Smarr examines the implications of an increasingly-networked world.
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Autodesk and the Cloud-Manufacturing Connection

Dec 05, 2011 | San Francisco Chronicle | Software vendor Autodesk highlighted its cloud computing focus with the introduction of several cloud-based offerings during the course of the Autodesk University event, which took place in Las Vegas last week.
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Cloud.com, OpenStack and the Longevity of the Cloud Brand

Dec 01, 2011 | TechTarget | For decades, the distributed computing architecture now known as cloud suffered a branding problem. Will the cloud label suffer the same fate?
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IU Team Sets Data Transfer Record at SC11

Nov 22, 2011 | Indiana University's Scinet Research Sandbox entry sets new records, renews promise of cloud for data-intensive science workloads.
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AMD's Chuck Moore on HPC-as-a-Service

Nov 02, 2011 | V3.co.uk | AMD roundtable focuses on the future of supercomputing and the challenges of exascale computing.
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China's Cloud Valley

Nov 01, 2011 | Technology Review | China's Cloud Valley may one day offer the power of a supercomputer for the price of a book.
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Cloud Less Cloudy with Formal NIST Definition

Oct 28, 2011 | NIST | The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) publishes its formal definition for cloud computing.
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Songnian Zhou on Combining Platform Computing with IBM

Oct 21, 2011 | Platform Computing's Company Blog | Platform CEO Songnian Zhou discusses the evolution of distributed computing as it relates to the acquisition of the company by IBM.
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Free Cycles for Big Science

Oct 20, 2011 | Compute Cycles Blog | Cycle Computing's BigScience Challenge 2011 seeks "to help a single researcher with an un-askable question."
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Intel Exec Sees Cloudy Future for HPC

Oct 19, 2011 | Intelligence in Software | Bill Magro, director of HPC software at Intel weighs in on how cloud computing will reshape HPC adoption for the "missing middle."
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LBNL Looks to Clouds to Handle HPC Growth

Oct 17, 2011 | Federal News Radio | Lawrence Berkeley National Lab's CIO discussed the institutions evaluation of cloud providers to handle growing needs for high performance computing.
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Programming for the Cloud

Oct 14, 2011 | CNET News | There are lots of programming languages to choose from, but how are they addressing the unique needs of the cloud?
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Cloud Speed Test Results Are In…

Oct 06, 2011 | ArsTechnica | CloudSleuth has released the results of a year-long study of the fastest response times among a number of major cloud service providers.
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The Missing Link on U.S. Cloud Chain

Sep 20, 2011 | House Subcommittee on Technology and Innovation | An upcoming committee hearing in the United States will address the critical issue for cloud's future in America--reliable, updated infrastructure.
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NIST Draws Federal Roadmap

Sep 15, 2011 | NIST | The National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) has provided the federal government with new standards guidelines.
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Apple's Cloud on the Clouds

Sep 06, 2011 | The Register | News surfaced recently that Apple's vast iCloud will float using Amazon Web Services and Microsoft's Azure clouds.
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SunGard Study Cites Mainstream Cloud

Sep 05, 2011 | A recent survey of 250 CIOs marked maturation for enterprise clouds.
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Latin American Cloud Complications Persist

Aug 23, 2011 | Pyramid Research | A new report examined the education, perception and infrastructure challenges that are blocking cloud adoption in Latin America.
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Insurance Companies Negotiate New Risks

Aug 22, 2011 | Insurance and Technology | Risk-averse industries are still considering clouds but security and availability concerns persist for mission-critical applications.
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Microsoft Offers Glimpse into Cloud Datacenters

Aug 16, 2011 | YouTube | Microsoft recently released a video providing an in-depth look at the hardware that backs its many cloud services.
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Cloud Leaders Organize Government Guide

Aug 10, 2011 | Integration Developer News | Cloud computing thought leaders gathered to collaborate on a cloud buying, implementation guide for governments.
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A Cloud Without the Internet

Aug 09, 2011 | InformationWeek | Amazon Web Services announced the ability for users to tap into their EC2 service without sending data across the public Internet.
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Azure Cloud to Capture RenderMan

Aug 08, 2011 | Stuff.co.nz | GrenButton announced that it would be making Pixar's high-end rendering software available to users via Microsoft's Azure cloud.
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Nebula Unveils OpenStack-Based Appliance

Aug 01, 2011 | GigaOm | Nebula, the much-anticipated project from former NASA CTO Chris Kemp came out of stealth with its hardware appliance that harnesses OpenStack.
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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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OpenStack and the SDSC Research Cloud

Jun 06, 2013 | The San Diego Supercomputer Center launched a public cloud system for universities in the area designed specifically to run on commodity hardware with high performance solid-state drives. The center, which currently holds 5.5 PB of raw storage, is open to educational and research users in the University of California.
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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.