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SUSE Launches Its OpenStack Distro

Aug 31, 2012 | SUSE announced their commercial cloud offering based on OpenStack at this year's CloudOpen conference.
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Amazon Aims to Disrupt Traditional Enterprise Practices

Aug 29, 2012 | This week, The New York Times profiled Amazon Web Services.
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Addressing the Barriers to HPC as a Service

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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Hosting Service Providers Spill Their Worst Fears

Aug 24, 2012 | Attendees at HostingCon 2012 speak of their darkest fears in a ScienceLogic survey.
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OnLive Loses Half its Employees in Financial Debacle

Aug 24, 2012 | The OnLive cloud gaming service avoids shutdown at a hefty price.
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Insourcing and the Privacy Scarecrow

Aug 21, 2012 | There is tech trend that may boost US job numbers and bring more investment to cloud providers.
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Indian Outsourcing Group TCS Acquires HPC-as-a-Service Provider

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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The Bandwidth Bottleneck

Aug 16, 2012 | Lack of high bandwidth connectivity can severely hinder the use of cloud services for HPC workloads.
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UCSD, Yale Create Neuroscience Gateway

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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Amazon Enables Earthlings to View Martian Photos

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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Apple Co-Founder Wozniak Says Cloud Will Cause 'Horrible Problems'

Aug 10, 2012 | Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak expresses concern over the loss of control associated with cloud services.
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When Is Cloud the Right Choice for HPC?

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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Curiosity's Cloud Connection

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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GAO Issues Progress Report on Cloud-First Mandate

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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SUSE Gains Traction with Cloud Providers

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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Can Service Providers Curb Privacy Concerns?

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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New API Delivers Science as a Service

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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OpenStack Community ARMs the Cloud

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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VMware Denies Spinoff Rumors As It Strengthens Cloud Hand

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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Predicting the Next Cloud Boom

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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Universities Receive Number Crunching On Demand from Penguin

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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Amazon Debuts Flash-Based Instance Type

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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Silicon Valley CEO Shakeup

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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Cloud Helps Address Capacity Woes

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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Analyst Firms Bullish on Cloud Spending

Jul 10, 2012 | Research firms are predicting strong growth for the cloud computing markets.
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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.