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IBM Outlines Benefits of Engineering Clouds

Jul 28, 2011 | IBM | A recent, broad-reaching IBM document explored the limitations engineering-oriented firms are facing, and what the role of the cloud can be as they address shortfalls.
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Developers Taking a PaaS on Clouds

Jul 21, 2011 | ZDNet Asia | While the IaaS market has evolved swiftly, interoperability concerns overwhelm the ability to get onboard with some PaaS offerings.
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IBM’s XIV Landing Soon

Jul 19, 2011 | ComputerWorld | IBM leaked details about the forthcoming new generation XIV system for large scale cloud, virtualization and big data deployments.
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An Insurance Paradigm for Cloud Services?

Jul 18, 2011 | FierceCIO | Some might look beyond SLAs to ensure their data is protected--and covered.
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Dell Invites Users to Sample Round Rock Cloud

Jul 14, 2011 | The Statesman | Dell will be opening a center in Round Rock for users to test their cloud services on-site.
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Bull Exec Spells Out HPC On Demand Appeal

Jul 05, 2011 | Computing.co.uk | Andrew Carr from Bull explained the ways that high performance computing on demand is opening doors to new ways to using and accessing HPC.
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Assessing Risk for Cloud-Based Manufacturing

Jun 29, 2011 | Industry Week | For many manufacturing organizations, intellectual property is the corporate lifeblood, but what changes when that property is in the cloud?
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Cisco Sees Open Clouds on Horizon

Jun 27, 2011 | H-Online | Cisco's CTO Lew Tucker spells out his company's cloudy vision and the role that their OpenStack involvement will play in the clouds of the future.
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TIlera Touts Triumph of Cloud Chips Over Intel

Jun 24, 2011 | Tilera | Tilera unveiled its cloud datacenter-specific chip family this week, noting performance and TCO benefits over Intel's SandyBridge.
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Q-Logic Makes the Case for High Performance Clouds

Jun 21, 2011 | InformationWeek | Q-Logic is touting HPC as the future of IT, but sees its role as best defined within clouds where supercomputer power can be put into closer reach.
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VMware Supports Singapore Agency Cloud Move

Jun 20, 2011 | FutureGov Asia | VMware will provide the virtualization backbone for the NIE's move to a research cloud.
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Researchers Tap Azure for Salmonella Clues

Jun 16, 2011 | Microsoft's Azure cloud is helping researchers at the University of Washington understand how salmonella attacks and mutates.
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Excel Gets Boost for Cloud-Based Analytics

Jun 14, 2011 | R&D Magazine | Microsoft has been showcasing a new spin on an old piece of software, which could offer a more familiar way to handle big data in the cloud.
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Cloud Policy and Protection on Europe’s Agenda

Jun 13, 2011 | CloudPlan.org | A workshop is set to address current policy, data protection and technology challenges in the path of Europe's digital agenda.
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What Became of the Grid?

Jun 10, 2011 | Quora | Before cloud computing came on the scene, grids were a hot topic in industry and research, but did cloud steal their thunder--or highlight their unique value?
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Xeon Intel’s Cloud Hardware Hero

Jun 09, 2011 | ZDnet | According to Intel, its Xeon will remain the cloud hardware choice in the near term.
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ARM Holds HPC Market Closer

Jun 02, 2011 | TechEye | ARM has touted its viability for high performance computing but this week ARM's Ian Drew spelled out just where HPC clouds fit in their "2020 Vision"
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SKA Finds New Beat with SETI Model

Jun 01, 2011 | PopSci | The world's largest radio telescope could produce more data than the entirety of the Internet could handle so new variations on old distributed computing models are finding an audience...
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Australian Agency Gathering Under Cloud

May 24, 2011 | Experian Australia | Geoscience Australia has a number of divisions and is looking at refining data management practices.
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Providers in Liability Limbo

May 18, 2011 | BNET | When the cloud is used for nefarious purposes as in the case of the Amazon/Sony issue, who's to blame?
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Fujitsu Leader Anticipates Enterprise "Revolution"

May 16, 2011 | Jamaica Observer | This week Tony Doyle provided insights into his company's enterprise cloud focus.
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Figures for a Web Farm Future

May 16, 2011 | ABB | Putting cloud in perspective via a striking infographic on data centers delivering web services.
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VMware's HPC Guru on High Performance Clouds

May 11, 2011 | Josh Simons talks virtual HPC via video from ISC Cloud Frankfurt.
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The Biosciences Bottleneck

May 05, 2011 | Scientific American | Biosciences researchers might see prime benefit in hybrid models to avoid bottleneck costs.
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HP Exec Sees Future of HPC for the Masses

May 04, 2011 | Hamilton's Blog | An HPC exec from HP considers the impact on massive cloud startup investments on future HPC Cloud ecosystem.
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CERN, Google, and the Future of Global Science Initiatives

Large-scale, worldwide scientific initiatives rely on some cloud-based system to both coordinate efforts and manage computational efforts at peak times that cannot be contained within the combined in-house HPC resources. Last week at Google I/O, Brookhaven National Lab’s Sergey Panitkin discussed the role of the Google Compute Engine in providing computational support to ATLAS, a detector of high-energy particles at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
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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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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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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.