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HPC in the Cloud Research Roundup

Mar 29, 2013 | 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.
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HPC Bolsters Life Sciences

Mar 14, 2013 | HPC, cloud and big data are experiencing this rich synergy, and it seems nowhere is this more evident than in life sciences. The Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC), a new state-of-the-art facility in Western Mass., just received more than $4.5 million in funding for a cloud-based system for computational biology that will tap into this union.
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UberCloud HPC Experiment Readies for Round Three

Mar 05, 2013 | 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.
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Utility Supercomputing Heats Up

Feb 28, 2013 | 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.
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In the Wake of the Higgs Boson: Helix Nebula – The Science Cloud

Jul 09, 2012 | Announced earlier this year, the pan-European cloud computing project, Helix Nebula - the Science Cloud, brings together select IT service providers with leading research institutions, CERN, the European Space Agency (ESA), and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL). Representatives from all three centers will take part in a joint keynote session at the ISC Cloud conference, taking place this September in Mannheim, Germany. In this brief Q&A, they share their perspectives on the initiative and provide an outline of what's to come.
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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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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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The UberCloud Goes Public

Jan 22, 2013 | The UberCloud Experiment will reveal lessons learned at upcoming events.
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Uber-Cloud Experiment Round 2 Kicks Off at SC12

Nov 02, 2012 | The Uber-Cloud Experiment is still seeking participants for the next round, which officially debuts at SC12.
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Life Sciences >> This Just In

GenoSpace Offers Aspera On Demand High-Speed Transfer

Apr 10, 2013 | Aspera announced the availability of GenoSpace for Clinical Care powered by Aspera high-speed transfer technology.
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Univa Releases Grid Engine 8.1.4, Helps Archimedes Meet Demands

Mar 28, 2013 | Largest Grid Engine update in 10 months brings new memory usage reporting and enhanced Intel Xeon Phi support.
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GP Strategies Launches Cloud Version of infoMaestro for Medical Information Space

Mar 15, 2013 | GP Strategies presents infoMaestro as a cost-effective medical information solution that reduces compliance risk and enables companies to respond to complex medical inquiries anywhere in the world with a timely, accurate and consistent answer.
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4medica Introduces MPI Engine Based on Big Data Technologies

Mar 11, 2013 | 4medica introduced the Master Patient Index engine based on big data technologies.
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PRACE's Open R&D HPC for Industry Awarded

Mar 11, 2013 | PRACE's Open R&D HPC access for industry was awarded in a European e-Infrastructure FP7 competition.
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CometCloud: Using a Federated HPC-Cloud to Understand Fluid Flow in Microchannels

The ever-growing complexity of scientific and engineering problems continues to pose new computational challenges. Thus, we present a novel federation model that enables end-users with the ability to aggregate heterogeneous resource scale problems. The feasibility of this federation model has been proven, in the context of the UberCloud HPC Experiment, by gathering the most comprehensive information to date on the effects of pillars on microfluid channel flow.
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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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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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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.