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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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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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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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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.

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