HPC in the Cloud: Use Cases

NASA Builds 'Climate in a Box'

Xtenit Help — 2013-05-23

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.

Avoiding Scientific Computing Bottlenecks in the Cloud

Fri, 17 May 2013 17:55:14 EDT

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.

HPC and the True Cost of Cloud

Tiffany Trader — 2013-05-08

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.

Dell Cloud Clinical Archive Hits 6 Billion

Tiffany Trader — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 20:16:42 EDT

Medical imaging data explodes into the cloud - 6 billion images alone in Dell's Archive.

Windows Azure Ready to Take on AWS

Tiffany Trader — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 19:05:52 EDT

After a lengthy incubation phase, Microsoft is finally ready to release its IaaS product into the wild. AWS, look out.

Middleware Is Cool

Tiffany Trader — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 19:23:39 EDT

Despite the important advances that middleware enables in both the HPC and enterprise spheres, it generally fails to elicit the same excitement as, say, brand-new leadership class hardware. But middleware, such as Adaptive Computing's intelligent management engine, Moab, is cool and you don't have to take Adaptive's word for it. During the company's annual user event last week, Gartner gave Adaptive its "Cool Vendor" stamp of approval.

When Is the Cloud Right for HPC?

Tiffany Trader — 2013-04-16

For a growing number of non-traditional HPC workloads, the cloud is the place to be.

Five Steps to a Private Cloud

Tiffany Trader — 2013-04-12

One of the sessions at this week's MoabCon event focused on best practices for private cloud. There are five steps that Adaptive recommends for companies seeking to transition into the next-generation of IT: Focus on ROI, Facilitating Self-Service, Use Chargeback, Continuously Optimize, and lastly, Go Vertical – Not Horizontal...

HPC in the Cloud Research Roundup

Tiffany Trader — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 17:03:57 EDT

Our top HPC cloud research story this week lays out a lightweight approach to implementing virtual machine monitors. Other items explore an innovative parallel cloud storage system, HPC-to-cloud migration, anywhere-anytime cluster monitoring, and a framework for cloud storage.

Global Enterprises Increase Linux Adoption

Xtenit Help — 2013-03-27

Annual Linux survey shows growth due to demand for supporting cloud initiatives, Greenfield deployments and mission-critical workloads.

CIA to Pay $600 Million for First Private Amazon Cloud

Tiffany Trader — 2013-03-25

Amazon Web Services was reportedly tapped to build the spy agency a cloud of its own.

Computing for a Cure

Tiffany Trader — 2013-03-13

Quantum Cures wants your help identifying drug candidates for orphan and rare diseases.

Robots of the World Unite

Tiffany Trader — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 16:59:10 EDT

European researchers have developed a cloud computing platform for robots.

UberCloud HPC Experiment Readies for Round Three

Tiffany Trader — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 18:40:13 EST

The UberCloud Experiment is issuing an open invitation to members of the HPC, CAE, life sciences, and big data communities to join round three. Teams will be involved in applying the cloud computing services model to compute and data-intensive workloads on remote cluster computing resources. The idea behind the experiment is to explore the end-to-end process of using remote computing resources as a service, and learning to tackle the many roadblocks.

Utility Supercomputing Heats Up

Tiffany Trader — 2013-02-28

The HPC in the cloud space continues to evolve and one of the companies leading that charge is Cycle Computing. The utility supercomputing vendor recently reported a record-breaking 2012, punctuated by several impressive big science endeavors.

Nixu Software Makes On-Demand Application Delivery a Reality

Tue, 26 Feb 2013 16:30:01 EST

Nixu Software announced the release of a case study featuring Tieto, an IT company in Northern Europe.

Genomics Researcher to Deliver GTC Keynote

Xtenit Help — 2013-02-21

NVIDIA today announced its lineup of world-class keynote speakers for the fourth-annual GPU Technology Conference (GTC), which will be held at the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, Calif., March 18-21.

Big Data Platform for Genomics Released

Xtenit Help — 2013-02-19

Bina Technologies, the genomic big data science platform accelerating personalized medicine, today announced the commercial launch of the Bina Genomic Analysis Platform.

Yottamine Serves Up Predictive Analytics On-Demand

Tiffany Trader — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 22:32:10 EST

Startup Yottamine Analytics is riding the twin waves of cloud and big data. Its cloud-based predictive modeling solution combines the benefits of EC2 spin-up automation and large-scale program parallelism to provide predictive power by the hour for pennies a minute.

A Tale of On-Demand Supercomputing

Xtenit Help — 2013-02-15

Chinese vendor commissions bare-metal, utility supercomputing service.

Volunteer Grid Project Finds Biggest Prime Ever

Tiffany Trader — 2013-02-08

The 17,425,170-digit prime number was discovered after a five-year hunt.