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Miha Ahronovitz
Univa Revving the Grid Engine Revival
Post Date: January 18, 2011 @ 6:10 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: Behind the Cloud
As a former product manager for Grid Engine, the news that Univa is rescuing the popular distributed resource management software is welcome, especially considering the leadership and development team behind the revival.
Nicole Hemsoth
Startup IaaS Provider Poised to Empower Developers, Compete in On-Demand Arena
Post Date: January 12, 2011 @ 4:19 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: Behind the Cloud
Startup NephoScale came out of the woodwork today with an offering designed to get developers up and running without the need for delays caused by system administrator configuration.
Scott Clark
Key Trends on the Horizon for HPC Clouds in 2011
Post Date: January 10, 2011 @ 9:28 AM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: Behind the Cloud
From infrastructure management to evolution in networks, storage paradigms and the compute landscape, Scott Clark puts forth a host of predictions for how cloud computing for HPC will shape up over the course of the new year.
Steve Campbell
High Hopes: Live from Storage Visions 2011
Post Date: January 05, 2011 @ 5:53 AM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: Behind the Cloud
Steve Campbell checks in from Las Vegas, home of Storage Visions, a two-day event in advance of the Consumer Electronics Show.
Bruce Maches
Cloud at the Heart of Biotech Startups
Post Date: January 03, 2011 @ 8:43 AM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: Behind the Cloud
It is not just big biotech companies that can leverage cloud computing; smaller early stage companies are also taking advantage of what cloud computing has to offer to cut costs, reduce complexity and ensure that resources are focused on the primary goals of the organization.
Earl Dodd
The HPC Cloud Must Validate ROI with (Better) Econometric Models
Post Date: December 06, 2010 @ 1:45 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: Behind the Cloud
We need econometric models to help demonstrate that HPC, especially for the on-demand environment, is a viable tool for economic development.
Nicole Hemsoth
Cross-National Perceptions of Clouds, Data Protection and Privacy
Post Date: November 30, 2010 @ 6:39 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: Behind the Cloud
This week Fujitsu released a report that examined cross-national differences in understanding and accepting the inherent data control issues that come with losing information into the cloud. Among key elements of concern are governments having control over a data, which carries a worry level that is not evenly distributed across nations.
Steve Campbell
Start Me Up….Cloud Tools Help Companies Accelerate the Adoption of Cloud Computing
Post Date: November 29, 2010 @ 12:03 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: Behind the Cloud
Cloud computing’s many flavors of services and offerings can be daunting at first review, but if you take a close look at the top providers offerings, you will see an ever increasing road map for on-boarding your existing or new applications to “the cloud”.
Nicole Hemsoth
HP Announces Cinematic G-Cloud for Government Evaluation
Post Date: November 22, 2010 @ 7:24 AM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: Behind the Cloud
Currently in the testbed stage, HP Labs is presenting the G-Cloud as a Minority Report-esque demo to public sector IT pros to show how services can be constructed from hosted components with a management layer on top—and of course, with one security feature piled atop another.
Nicole Hemsoth
Introduction to the First Annual HPC in the Cloud Editors’ Choice Awards
Post Date: November 10, 2010 @ 2:03 AM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: Behind the Cloud
This year HPC in the Cloud announced the winners for its first annual Editors' Choice award, which pulled together our top eight picks for the year, forming not only a "who to watch" list but also recognizing a handful of vendors for their commitment to improving the cloud for scientific and large-scale enterprise users.
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Behind the Cloud Contributors
Earl J. Dodd, President of Ideas And Machines, Inc. and i3D Inc.
Independent HPC consultant for cluster, grid, and cloud computing, and for data and compute-intensive applications, and General Chair of the ISC Cloud Conference.
Dr. Jose Luis Vazquez-Poletti is Assistant Professor in Computer Architecture at Complutense University of Madrid (Spain), and a Cloud Computing Researcher at the Distributed Systems Architecture Research Group. He is directly involved in EU funded projects, such as EGEE (Grid Computing) and 4CaaSt (PaaS Cloud), as well as many Spanish national initiatives.
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An HPC industry consultant and cloud evangelist, Steve Campbell is a seasoned senior HPC executive.
Former Director of Information Technology for Pfizer's R&D division, current CIO for BRMaches & Associates.
Sue Korn is a Senior Analyst at Intersect360 Research specializing in Edge HPC applications, and a 20-year veteran of the Financial Services Industry. In her role at Intersect360 Research, Korn spearheads the company's analysis of the drivers and barriers of HPC adoption in business environments and the growing role of Edge HPC applications.
Scott Clark has been an infrastructure solution provider in the EDA/Semiconductor industry for almost 20 years.
Ignacio M. Llorente, Ph.D in Computer Science (UCM) and Executive MBA (IE Business School), is a Full Professor in Computer Architecture and Technology, and the Head of the Distributed Systems Architecture Research Group at Complutense University of Madrid.
Joshua Geist is the founder and CEO of Geminare Incorporated, an innovator in cloud-based enablement technologies for the Recovery as a Service market. Combining a degree in Physics with over 20 years of technology experience, Joshua's passion lies in solving technology challenges for the mid-sized business market.
Miha Ahronovitz specializes in cloud software, products and business models and led product and business strategy for Sun Microsystem’s HPCGrid and Cloud division. Following Sun’s merger, Miha is now the Principal of Ahrono Associates.
Edward J. Lucente is V.P. of Business Development at Data Center Rebates, Inc., an IT efficiency consultancy based in Carlsbad, CA, whose professional services focus on data center energy efficiency (DCEE), leasing integrated with technology refreshes, and negotiation of IT energy rebates. (Ed is a rabid Red Sox fan also.)
Craig Lund is a consultant focused on specialized markets for High Performance Computing. He is best known from his many years as CTO of Mercury Computer Systems.
Jake is a software executive, writer and blogger. Based in Raleigh, North Carolina, he is currently the chief marketing officer for rPath. Feel free to contact Jake via email at jsorofman@rpath.com
Tom is the publisher of HPC in the Cloud. He has over 30 years of experience in business-to-business publishing, with the last 22 years focused primarily on High Productivity Computing (HPC) technologies.
Feature Articles
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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Short Takes
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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Exploring the Potential of Heterogeneous Computing
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