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Nicole Hemsoth
IBM Fueling Data Center Development in APAC
Post Date: January 25, 2011 @ 8:27 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: Behind the Cloud
This week IBM announced another addition in its string of cloud computing data center initiatives rooted in the Asia-Pacific region. This brings the company to over $100 million in investment in APAC as analyst figures continue to match this sense of hope for the region's vast market.
Jake Sorofman
Consider the Source: The Myth of the False Cloud
Post Date: January 21, 2011 @ 7:38 AM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: Behind the Cloud
It’s important to acknowledge that all of this hullaballoo around clouds may be an issue of semantics. Ultimately, it doesn’t much matter if you call this internal elastic infrastructure a cloud, a grid or some other such thing...
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”.
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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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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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Ruan Pethiyagoda, Cameron Boehmer, John S. Dvorak, and Tim Sze, trained at San Francisco’s Hack Reactor, an institute designed for intense fast paced learning of programming, put together a program based on the N-Queens algorithm designed by the University of Cambridge’s Martin Richards, and modified it to run in parallel across multiple machines.
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Datapipe and Verne Global's Green Cloud
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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
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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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