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Aug 31, 2012 |
SUSE announced their commercial cloud offering based on OpenStack at this year's CloudOpen conference.
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Aug 29, 2012 |
This week, The New York Times profiled Amazon Web Services.
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Aug 29, 2012 |
During a session at the SRII Global Conference 2012, panelists discussed how the barriers to HPC in the Cloud compare to mainstream cloud computing.
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Aug 24, 2012 |
Attendees at HostingCon 2012 speak of their darkest fears in a ScienceLogic survey.
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Aug 24, 2012 |
The OnLive cloud gaming service avoids shutdown at a hefty price.
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Aug 21, 2012 |
There is tech trend that may boost US job numbers and bring more investment to cloud providers.
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Aug 17, 2012 |
Tata Consultancy Services announced the acquisition of HPC-as-a-Service provider Computational Research Laboratories for $34 million.
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Aug 16, 2012 |
Lack of high bandwidth connectivity can severely hinder the use of cloud services for HPC workloads.
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Aug 14, 2012 |
The University of California San Diego (UCSD) and Yale University have been awarded an NSF grant to build a neuroscience gateway.
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Aug 14, 2012 |
Now that Curiosity is on the red planet, Amazon Web Services will process pictures taken by the new inhabitant, making them available to NASA researchers and the public.
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Aug 10, 2012 |
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak expresses concern over the loss of control associated with cloud services.
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Aug 09, 2012 |
Cloud technologies have become integral to a number of services including video streaming, file sharing and social media to name a few. But when it comes to HPC applications, the benefits don't always translate.
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Aug 07, 2012 |
The news media has been abuzz over NASA's recent achievement. The big risk, big reward operation costing 2.5 billion dollars, which included safely landing a mini cooper-sized robot on Mars, paid off.
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Aug 06, 2012 |
The U.S. Government and Accountability Office has been tracking the progress of a "cloud-first" mandate proposed by the Office of Management and Budget. While headway has been made, agencies are falling behind some deadlines.
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Aug 03, 2012 |
Earlier this week, Linux distributor SUSE announced that more than 20 major vendors are participating in its cloud provider program.
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Aug 01, 2012 |
Is there any way to guarantee the security of cloud-based data? A security provider attempts to reduce vulnerabilities and increase confidence with auditing and compliance services.
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Jul 30, 2012 |
A team from the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) has created an API to simplify the process of scientific computing.
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Jul 27, 2012 |
A new zone in the TryStack testing environment has enabled developers to vet their software on an OpenStack infrastructure powered by the low-power ARM chips.
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Jul 26, 2012 |
VMware attempts to quash rumors that it is planning to spin off its cloud assets as it purchases cloud company Nicira to the tune of $1.26 billion in cash.
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Jul 24, 2012 |
According to a new report from Saugatuck Technology, cloud-based business analytics is poised for huge growth over the next two years.
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Jul 23, 2012 |
Penguin Computing's cloud division offers universities a number of flexible arrangements involving both locally-installed and Web-accessible HPC resources.
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Jul 20, 2012 |
This week cloud giant Amazon Web Services announced a new EC2 instance type for applications that need low-latency access to high-speed solid-state disks (SSDs).
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Jul 17, 2012 |
VMware and Yahoo are both under new leadership. EMC Corp's Pat Gelsinger is replacing Paul Maritz as the CEO of VMware and longtime Google hotshot Marissa Mayer takes the top office at Yahoo.
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Jul 12, 2012 |
The Uptime Institute has released its second annual datacenter survey. The data confirmed a number of long held observations regarding cloud computing, but also uncovered a few surprising results.
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Jul 10, 2012 |
Research firms are predicting strong growth for the cloud computing markets.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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.