NASA Builds 'Climate in a Box'

May 23, 2013 | he 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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In Support of Cloud-based Rendering

May 10, 2013 | Australian visual effects company, Animal Logic, is considering a move to the public cloud.
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Internet2 Awards Program Seeks Innovative Applications

May 10, 2013 | Program provides cash awards up to $10,000 for the best open-source end-user applications deployed on 100G network.
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HPC and the True Cost of Cloud

May 08, 2013 | For engineers looking to leverage high-performance computing, the accessibility of a cloud-based approach is a powerful draw, but there are costs that may not be readily apparent.
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Dell Cloud Clinical Archive Hits 6 Billion

Apr 25, 2013 | Medical imaging data explodes into the cloud - 6 billion images alone in Dell's Archive.
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Windows Azure Ready to Take on AWS

Apr 17, 2013 | After a lengthy incubation phase, Microsoft is finally ready to release its IaaS product into the wild. AWS, look out.
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When Is the Cloud Right for HPC?

Apr 16, 2013 | For a growing number of non-traditional HPC workloads, the cloud is the place to be.
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Rockhopper POD Cluster Beats Amazon

Apr 11, 2013 | The Rockhopper cluster has been in production for over a year now, long enough for additional details to emerge on this interesting HPC cloud use case.
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Is Amazon's 'Fast' Interconnect Fast Enough for MPI?

Apr 10, 2013 | Amazon's EC2 Cluster Compute instance goes head-to-head with Myrinet 10GigE cluster.
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Crossing Borders in the Cloud

Mar 28, 2013 | Cloud computing has made the exchange of information between financial companies and the European community complicated.
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Setting Up CUDA in the Cloud

Mar 26, 2013 | Tutorial describes how to implement CUDA and parallel programming in the AWS Cloud.
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CIA to Pay $600 Million for First Private Amazon Cloud

Mar 25, 2013 | Amazon Web Services was reportedly tapped to build the spy agency a cloud of its own.
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QMachine Combines HPC with WWW

Mar 14, 2013 | QMachine leverages the processing power of Web browsers to create a commodity supercomputer.
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Computing for a Cure

Mar 13, 2013 | Quantum Cures wants your help identifying drug candidates for orphan and rare diseases.
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Robots of the World Unite

Mar 11, 2013 | European researchers have developed a cloud computing platform for robots.
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AWS Reduces EC2 Pricing for the 26th Time

Mar 06, 2013 | It's looking like a race to the bottom as far as cloud pricing is concerned.
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Bringing Buildings to the Cloud

Mar 04, 2013 | Digital Manufacturing Report | Could cloud help the multi-trillion dollar building industry become more profitable?
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StarCluster 101

Mar 01, 2013 | Create DIY HPC clusters in the Amazon cloud with the StarCluster toolkit. Here's how.
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Stories from the Grid: Main Belt Comets

Mar 01, 2013 | EGI Astronomer Bojan Novakovic, from the Institute of Physics Belgrade, talks about Main Belt Comets.
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Make That Dr. Watson – IBM's AI Darling Grows Up

Feb 21, 2013 | Watson-based medical software runs in-house or as a service.
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A Tale of On-Demand Supercomputing

Feb 15, 2013 | Chinese vendor commissions bare-metal, utility supercomputing service.
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Volunteer Grid Project Finds Biggest Prime Ever

Feb 08, 2013 | The 17,425,170-digit prime number was discovered after a five-year hunt.
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HPC Clouds – Present and Future

Feb 06, 2013 | Croatian researchers examine the current state of high-performance computing in the cloud.
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Where SaaS Meets Science

Jan 30, 2013 | Science-as-a-Service isn't coming soon. It's already here.
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