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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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HPC, Clouds & Big Data Converge at ISC Cloud 2012 - Part One

Sep 25, 2012 | The last week of September, ISC Cloud had its third annual event in Mannheim, Germany, organized by Uber Cloud Experiment leader Wolfgang Gentzsch. The broad-ranging yet ambitiously-dense program attracted a nice balance of users and technology enablers from research and industry.
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Adaptive Computing Revs Up Moab

Mar 20, 2012 | Adaptive Computing recently released a new version of Moab 7.0, both the HPC Suite (basic and enterprise editions) and also the Cloud Suite. While the workload management vendor has made important enhancements to its portfolio, what's even more interesting is how these offerings fit into an increasingly cloud-based IT environment. This in-depth interview with Adaptive Computing CEO Robert Clyde and Chad Harrington, Adaptive's vice president of marketing, shows how the company has leveraged its HPC roots to strengthen its cloud offerings.
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Fujitsu Rolls Out Technical Cloud Computing Services

Aug 08, 2011 | Today Fujitsu announced its technical cloud computing service, aimed primarily at the needs of the manufacturing sector. The offering encompasses a number of modes of operation, from virtual machine-based environments for running analytical simulations to physical hardware.
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IBM Tunes Clouds for HPC Verticals

Jun 09, 2011 | IBM announced the first of its industry-specific HPC cloud offerings today with its Engineering Cloud, which is provided without virtualization performance overhead and a host of tools to cater to EDA, manufacturing and beyond.
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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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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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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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Lamborghini Strengthens Online Presence with AWS

Oct 09, 2012 | When Lamborghini's Web backend reached the end of its lifecyle, the company looked to cloud computing for its scalability and cost benefits.
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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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NetSuite Announces New Customer Wins As Manufacturers Continue Shift to the Cloud

Mar 19, 2013 | NetSuite announced that four manufacturers have replaced their legacy, on-premise software with NetSuite.
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Iron Atom Certifies Amazon GovCloud for PCB DFM

Oct 30, 2012 | Iron Atom has certified Amazon Web Services 'GovCloud' for use with its fully automated PCB DFM web offering.
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Wärtsilä, Techila Partner on Data Management

Oct 08, 2012 | Techila Technologies and Wärtsilä have joined SIMPRO to work on development of simulation-based product processes.
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COMSOL Updates Modeling and Simulation Software, Adds Amazon EC2 Support

Oct 05, 2012 | COMSOL has announced an update to its multiphysics modeling and simulation software.
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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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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.