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DOE Connects the Dots on Multi-Lab Cloud Strategy

Dec 10, 2012 | For the first time it is now possible to access the cloud computing strategies of all 22 Department of Energy national laboratories and research organizations in one document.
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VMware, EMC Spinoff Resurfaces

Dec 04, 2012 | VMware and EMC spinoff rumors, which came to light back in July, are now official.
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Cloud Browser Hack Exposed

Dec 03, 2012 | Researchers from North Carolina State University and the University of Oregon show how hackers can anonymously hijack computing power from cloud-based Web browsers.
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Google Fills Out Cloud Portfolio, Drops Prices

Nov 27, 2012 | In push to compete with rival cloud players, Google announces 36 new instance types, reduced compute and storage costs.
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HPC Cloud Targets Oil and Gas Space

Nov 21, 2012 | Dell, and R Systems have launched an HPC cloud solution designed to meet the needs of oil and gas companies.
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Cloud Helps Obama Win Reelection

Nov 19, 2012 | The Obama camp leveraged the Amazon cloud for its successful 2012 election campaign.
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Amazon EC2 Versus the Competition

Nov 06, 2012 | New report compares Amazon EC2 with nine other IaaS providers on a range of performance and stability metrics.
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Uber-Cloud Experiment Round 2 Kicks Off at SC12

Nov 02, 2012 | The Uber-Cloud Experiment is still seeking participants for the next round, which officially debuts at SC12.
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Dell Develops Second ARM Server Platform

Oct 30, 2012 | Dell hands over its Calxeda ARM-based server platform to the Apache community.
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Yottabyte Unveils Cloud Operating System

Oct 29, 2012 | The software platform promises to turn commodity hardware and storage components into agile cloud-based datacenters.
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Newvem Analyzes the Cloud

Oct 23, 2012 | Newvem's analytics tool helps solve cost, security and availability issues associated with Amazon Web Services.
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Sony Removes Folding@home Service from PS3

Oct 22, 2012 | After a successful five-year run, Sony is ending its participation with Stanford University's Folding@home project.
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Cycle Scavenging Startup Gets Its Grid On

Oct 16, 2012 | Portland-based CPUsage operates kind of like the volunteer computing grids, except the startup pays users for their "extra" compute power.
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Did Amazon Really Buy a Boatload of Teslas?

Oct 11, 2012 | There's a story circulating that Amazon purchased more than 10,000 NVIDIA Kepler-based boards for its EC2 service.
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Amazon Highlights Public Sector Prominence

Oct 10, 2012 | Amazon pulls back the covers on its cloud business, touts public sector adoption.
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Lamborghini Strengthens Online Presence with AWS

Oct 09, 2012 | When Lamborghini's Web backend reached the end of its lifecyle, the company looked to cloud computing for its scalability and cost benefits.
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Europe Ties Cloud to Job Growth, Economic Prosperity

Oct 02, 2012 | The European Commission lays out a single set of rules for cloud computing aimed at increasing EU GDP by €160 billion annually by 2020.
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Cloud Providers Want Government Stamp of Approval

Sep 28, 2012 | The GSAs FedRAMP program has cloud providers looking to receive government endorsement.
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NASDAQ OMX Builds Financial Cloud Platform with Amazon

Sep 25, 2012 | The NASDAQ OMX group and Amazon Web Services have partnered to develop a cloud platform for financial institutions.
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Uber-Cloud Experiment Posts Half-Time Report

Sep 21, 2012 | With Round One of the Uber-Cloud experiment wrapping up, the organizers report on the progress to date.
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InfiniBand-Backed Cloud Provider Goes Toe-to-Toe with Amazon, Rackspace

Sep 13, 2012 | IaaS provider ProfitBricks proclaims noteworthy performance-metrics, pits service against the top two cloud providers.
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ODCA Survey Shows Cloud Adoption Ramping Up

Sep 12, 2012 | The Open Data Center Alliance has released the results of its second annual member survey.
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Achieving Federated and Self-Manageable Cloud Infrastructures: A Book Review

Sep 10, 2012 | Achieving Federated and Self-Manageable Cloud Infrastructures: Theory and Practice provides an analysis of the main issues surrounding cloud federation.
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New Standard Looks to Simplify Infrastructure Management

Sep 06, 2012 | The Distributed Management Task Force has released a spec to standardize infrastructure management.
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The Cloud Is Over Most People's Heads

Sep 05, 2012 | Recent surveys show that most people are woefully unfamiliar with cloud technologies.
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CometCloud: Using a Federated HPC-Cloud to Understand Fluid Flow in Microchannels

The ever-growing complexity of scientific and engineering problems continues to pose new computational challenges. Thus, we present a novel federation model that enables end-users with the ability to aggregate heterogeneous resource scale problems. The feasibility of this federation model has been proven, in the context of the UberCloud HPC Experiment, by gathering the most comprehensive information to date on the effects of pillars on microfluid channel flow.
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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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NASA Builds 'Climate in a Box'

May 23, 2013 | The study of climate change is one of those scientific problems where it is almost essential to model the entire Earth to attain accurate results and make worthwhile predictions. In an attempt to make climate science more accessible to smaller research facilities, NASA introduced what they call ‘Climate in a Box,’ a system they note acts as a desktop supercomputer.
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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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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.