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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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Cloud Computing Saves Big Money for the Fed

May 03, 2012 | Study reveals that federal agencies shaved $5.5 billion off their IT budget through the use of cloud services, but they could have saved twice that amount.
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In House vs. In Cloud: An Altair Exec Talks Infrastructure

Apr 30, 2012 | Bill Nitzberg, CTO of Altair’s PBS Works division, discusses Altair's HPC management software and his take on the cloud.
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Penguin Wins Award, Keeps Wearing Tux

Apr 27, 2012 | Penguin Computing is flapping its wings, as it has received Intel's Data Center Innovation Award at the Intel Solutions Summit.
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Is Amazon Poised to Take Over the Internet?

Apr 24, 2012 | One-third of all US Internet users visit an Amazon-hosted site every day.
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Greenpeace Asks 'How Clean is Your Cloud?'

Apr 17, 2012 | Report accuses tech giants of engaging in "dirty energy" practices.
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Grid Fights Neurological Disease

Apr 16, 2012 | CORDIS | Thanks to the neuGRID initiative, researchers were able to process thousands of brain scans in less than two weeks instead of five years.
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Open Data Center Alliance Promotes Cloud Standards, Publishes Five New Usage Models

Apr 10, 2012 | Responding to key user challenges faced by member organizations, the Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA) has released five new usage models focused on cloud security and infrastructure.
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Amazon S3: Almost 1 Trillion Objects Stored

Apr 09, 2012 | Just six-years-old, the Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) is experiencing tremendous growth.
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Gartner Lays Out Five-Part Cloud Strategy

Apr 03, 2012 | A new report from Gartner outlines a series of enterprise cloud strategies to help companies stay current on the latest cloud trends.
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China Supercharges Cloud Centers

Mar 29, 2012 | Despite the red curtain, China's cloud computing aspirations are no secret.
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Cloud Adoption on the Rise at Large Companies

Mar 27, 2012 | A major new cloud study finds that cloud apps are set to become much more pervasive by 2014.
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Has Cloud Delivered on Its Promise?

Mar 19, 2012 | NetApp rep weighs in on cloud's promise, citing 2011 as a banner year.
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Amazon's Biggest Cloud Secret Revealed

Mar 18, 2012 | One researcher sets out to determine how many servers are hidden in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud.
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Cloud Computing for the Intelligence Community

Mar 13, 2012 | The Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA) has released a new white paper outlining the risks and benefits of cloud computing for the national security space.
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HP Positions Public Cloud Offering as Alternative to Amazon

Mar 12, 2012 | Computer technology giant Hewlett-Packard is on track to launch a major cloud computing service in the next two months.
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Cloud Computing to Create Millions of Jobs Worldwide

Mar 05, 2012 | A new IDC study, commissioned by Microsoft, predicts that cloud computing will create nearly 14 million jobs by 2015.
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Windows Azure Cloud Suffers Lengthy Outage

Feb 29, 2012 | The Microsoft Windows Azure cloud experienced a serious outage early Wednesday morning (Greenwich Time), preventing some customers from accessing data and applications.
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Cloudscape IV Spurs Discussion

Feb 28, 2012 | Defining HPC in the cloud — Juelich Supercomputing Center's Morris Riedel highlights key topics raised by Cloudscape IV event.
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US Ranks Fourth in Global Study of Cloud-Friendliness

Feb 27, 2012 | The US ranks behind Japan, Australia and Germany in terms of cloud-readiness, as measured by seven policy categories, including data privacy, security and standards.
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UK Government Opens CloudStore

Feb 21, 2012 | UK's CloudStore aims to change the face of public sector ICT procurement by offering 1,700 services in an app-store format.
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Unified Computing Pioneer Transforms Business Model

Feb 20, 2012 | CEO Pete Manca details Egenera's unusual journey from hardware vendor to software provider.
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Biotech Firm Doubles Down on Amazon Cloud

Feb 14, 2012 | Connecticut-based biotech firm Metrum Research Group moves entire IT infrastructure to Amazon cloud.
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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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Overcoming the Cloud Security Barrier for Financial Services

The private industry least likely to adopt public cloud services for data storage are financial institutions. Holding the most sensitive and heavily-regulated of data types, personal financial information, banks and similar institutions are mostly moving towards private cloud services – and doing so at great cost.
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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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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.