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Sony Acquires Cloud Gaming Service

Jul 06, 2012 | Gaming giant Sony Computer Entertainment has purchased Gaikai for $380 million.
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HPC Powers Unite!

Jul 03, 2012 | The Imperial College London and the University of Cambridge have joined forces to offer HPC-as-a-Service to the UK business community.
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Amazon Bit the Dust... Again

Jul 02, 2012 | Amazon suffers a double whammy during the month of June. Netflix, Pinterest, Instagram and others were affected by the disruptions.
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Survey Tracks the State of Cloud Storage

Jun 29, 2012 | A survey of CloudExpo attendees generates insight into the future of cloud storage services.
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The Uber-Cloud Experiment Is Seeking Participants

Jun 29, 2012 | An HPC-as-a-Service Experiment is in the works, which will bring together industry end users, resource providers, software providers, and HPC experts.
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Amazon Brings HPC Cluster Instance to Europe

Jun 26, 2012 | Utility computing vendor Amazon is spreading the HPC cloud love outside the US borders. This week, the company launched an HPC-level cluster in its facility in Ireland.
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The Inevitable Nature of Failure

Jun 21, 2012 | Cloud technologies have been made popular by offering cheap, accessible services to their users. For all the benefits providers can deliver, they are unable to guarantee 100 percent availability.
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A Crystal Ball for Enterprise May Exist in the Cloud

Jun 19, 2012 | A growing trend in enterprise environments is the ability to deploy predictive analytics. Cloud services match up well with the requirements of these applications.
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A Cloud SPEC on the Horizon

Jun 18, 2012 | The Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) has formed a working group to define cloud benchmark methodologies.
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NASA Goes Amazon… OpenStack Cries Over Ice Cream

Jun 14, 2012 | NASA, a co-founder of OpenStack, has decided to migrate their cloud applications to Microsoft and Amazon's platforms.
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SSD: The Solid State Dilemma

Jun 12, 2012 | Solid state storage provides a great many benefits for big data and cloud applications, but the technology has an achilles heel.
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Azure Changes Dress Code, Allows Tuxedos

Jun 07, 2012 | Microsoft Windows Azure will be adding the ability for end users to create virtual machines with Linux images.
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China Banks Big on Cloud

Jun 05, 2012 | IDC figures show China investing just over one billion dollars for cloud infrastructure in the year 2016.
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Cheap HPC Resources Rain on Enterprise

Jun 01, 2012 | Cloud services assist in the democratization of high-performance computing.
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Cloud Rendering in the Push of a Button

May 29, 2012 | A platform provider aims to speed rendering for graphics-heavy applications.
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No Place to Hide for Personal Data

May 25, 2012 | Since the Patriot Act's introduction, many concerns have been raised regarding cloud services and data privacy.
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NASA to Stop OpenStack Development

May 23, 2012 | The space agency revealed it would no longer be participating in the open-source cloud project.
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IBM Takes Aim at Amazon

May 22, 2012 | Big Blue has the capital and technological know-how to pull off a cloud coup.
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HP Cloud Helps Build Dream Movies

May 21, 2012 | During their decade-long partnership, HP has helped digital moviemakers at DreamWorks create such blockbuster animated features as Toy Story, Shrek and Kung Fu Panda.
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NVIDIA Raises Its Game to the Cloud

May 17, 2012 | NVIDIA GeForce GRID, a cloud gaming platform announced at the 2012 GPU Technology Conference (GTC), seeks to reduce the the latency associated with cloud gaming.
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Breaking the Cloud Barrier

May 15, 2012 | New Microsoft report shows that beyond the expected financial benefits, cloud services may offer more comprehensive security features compared to in-house IT operations.
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Vendors Demo Next-Gen Sequencing Platforms for Pharma

May 14, 2012 | During the second annual Pistoia Alliance conference, three teams demonstrated their newly-implemented cloud-based next-generation sequencing platforms.
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Zunicore Offers Bare Metal by the Hour

May 10, 2012 | PEER1's cloud division, Zunicore, will soon be offering GPU-equipped servers on-demand.
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US Cloud Providers Struggle With Data Privacy Laws

May 08, 2012 | The Patriot Act leads foreign governments to question the security of US cloud services.
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Genomic Data Gets Comfy in the Cloud

May 07, 2012 | Startup DNANexus is helping to bring personalized medicine to the masses with its cloud-based next-gen sequencing platform.
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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.