HPC in the Cloud: Use Cases

Innovators in Pediatric Cancer to Share Progress on Ground-Breaking Personalized Medicine Clinical Trial

Tiffany Trader — Wed, 09 May 2012 03:27:50 EDT

Dell to host NMTRC Symposium 2012, annual meeting of biomedical researchers, pediatric oncologists, parents and advocates.

In House vs. In Cloud: An Altair Exec Talks Infrastructure

Robert Gelber — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 14:51:10 EDT

Bill Nitzberg, CTO of Altair’s PBS Works division, discusses Altair's HPC management software and his take on the cloud.

Penguin Wins Award, Keeps Wearing Tux

Robert Gelber — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 12:34:26 EDT

Penguin Computing is flapping its wings, as it has received Intel's Data Center Innovation Award at the Intel Solutions Summit.

Cycle Spins Up 50,000-core Cluster in Amazon Cloud

Tiffany Trader — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 18:22:17 EDT

The case for utility supercomputing just got a lot bigger, literally. Cycle Computing has created a 50,000-core virtual supercomputer to assist in the development of novel drug compounds for cancer research.

WaaS Up? IBM Unveils Watson-as-a-Service

Tiffany Trader — 2012-03-27

Since its infamous Jeopardy win over a year ago, IBM's AI-darling Watson has been busy establishing real-world relationships in the financial and health care sectors. This month, IBM representatives revealed Watson's next steps in a live Twitter chat.

Helix Nebula, European Science Cloud, Enters Pilot Phase

Tiffany Trader — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 12:39:25 EST

'Helix Nebula ‐ the Science Cloud', will support the massive IT requirements of European scientists, and become available to governmental organizations and industry after an initial pilot phase.

Cloud Computing Helps Fight Pediatric Cancer

Tiffany Trader — 2012-02-28

As part of its Powering the Possible charitable program, Dell is providing the secure cloud-based IT infrastructure to support the world's first personalized medicine clinical trial for pediatric cancer. The research is being conducted by the Neuroblastoma and Medulloblastoma Translational Research Consortium (NMTRC) at the Van Andel Research Institute (VARI) and supported by The Translational Genomics Research Institute (Tgen).

Biotech Firm Doubles Down on Amazon Cloud

Tiffany Trader — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:31:37 EST

Connecticut-based biotech firm Metrum Research Group moves entire IT infrastructure to Amazon cloud.

Blue Waters to Use Globus Online File Transfer Service

Tiffany Trader — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:43:48 EST

When Blue Waters comes online this year, scientists will be able to spend more time on actual research, thanks in part to Globus Online, a cloud-based managed file transfer service. The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) selected Globus Online for its ability to move and synchronize files reliably between multiple locations without the need to install complex software.

2nd Cloud Computing World Forum Asia Declared a Success

Tiffany Trader — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 15:27:43 EST

With over 500 attendees through the doors, all involved are celebrating the outstanding success of last week's Cloud Computing World Forum Asia.

Europe's Leading Cloud Computing World Forum Returns to Asia

Tiffany Trader — 2011-11-22

Europe's highest attended cloud computing event will head to Hong Kong on November 30th to 1st December, in the form of the 2nd Annual Cloud Computing World Forum Asia with over 500 senior IT decision makers expected.

Running Compute Intensive Tasks in the Cloud

Nicole Hemsoth — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 10:09:59 EDT

The advent of public clouds has brought large-scale HPC resources within easy reach of ordinary companies. In many situations, especially for temporary projects, cloud solutions can be more affordable for HPC than the cost of acquiring the necessary amount of of compute power in-house. Before cloud, only a few companies, such as giant financial services firms, could afford to have this type of resource.

Dutch HPC Cloud Running at Full Throttle

Jose Luis Vazquez-Poletti — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 12:08:46 EDT

Last October a special event took place at Amsterdam’s Science Park. After 2 years of hard work, the first user-friendly HPC cloud infrastructure in Europe is working at full throttle. The collaboration between SARA and BiG Grid is behind this epic milestone.

Cloud Speed Test Results Are In…

Nicole Hemsoth — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 11:01:59 EDT

CloudSleuth has released the results of a year-long study of the fastest response times among a number of major cloud service providers.

HPC Meets Clouds in Mannheim

Nicole Hemsoth — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 06:45:06 EDT

In our first in a series of reports and interviews from ISC Cloud '11 in Mannheim, Germany, we sit down with conference chair, Wolfgang Gentzsch to discuss trends in high performance computing in the cloud--and where the increasing commonalities lie for those exploring HPC clouds for academic and industrial or enterprise use. Gentzsch discusses the prevalence of private and hybrid clouds and lends insight to broader movements in this rapidly evolving space.

NIST Draws Federal Roadmap

Nicole Hemsoth — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 11:13:52 EDT

The National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) has provided the federal government with new standards guidelines.

ISC Cloud: Interview with Chairman Wolfgang Gentzsch

Nicole Hemsoth — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 14:15:17 EDT

ISC Cloud '11 in Mannheim, Germany is just around the corner. We caught up with the event's chairman, Wolfgang Getzsch to find out what to expect.

Asahi Group to Use Fujitsu's Cloud to Visualize, Enhance Operations Analysis

John Shandor — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 12:34:16 EDT

Fujitsu Limited and Asahi Group Holdings, Ltd. today announced their collaboration on the development of a cloud-based sales data visualization system for three of the Asahi Group's Chinese sales centers in Shanghai, Shenzhen and Dalian.

Apple's Cloud on the Clouds

Nicole Hemsoth — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 11:38:46 EDT

News surfaced recently that Apple's vast iCloud will float using Amazon Web Services and Microsoft's Azure clouds.

Retail Chain Chooses IBM to Collaborate in the Cloud

Nicole Hemsoth — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 14:13:26 EDT

As a result of adopting cloud computing, the company plans to better integrate and share data across its 24 convenience stores across the western US and Hawaii management teams and improve collaboration between employees, customers and partners.