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Avoiding Scientific Computing Bottlenecks in the Cloud

May 17, 2013 | 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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HPC in the Cloud Research Roundup

Mar 15, 2013 | The top HPC cloud research story this week addresses the question: What if it were possible to cheaply and easily test the suitability of moving to a cloud platform – a virtual "try it before you buy it"? In other items, researchers explore the reliability of HPC cloud, take another pass at GPU virtualization, and evaluate I/O performance in Amazon's EC2 cloud.
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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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Yottamine Serves Up Predictive Analytics On-Demand

Feb 15, 2013 | 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.
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Redshift, New Instance Types, Price Cuts and More at AWS Re: Invent

Dec 04, 2012 | AWS used its first ever customer and partner conference, AWS re: Invent, held last week in Las Vegas, as a launch pad for some major company news. During their respective keynotes, AWS Senior Vice President Andrew Jassy revealed a brand new data warehouse service, AWS Redshift, and another price cut for the S3 storage service, while Amazon.com CTO Werner Vogels announced two super-sized EC2 Instance Types, and another new service, the AWS Data Pipeline.
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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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Setting Up CUDA in the Cloud

Mar 26, 2013 | Tutorial describes how to implement CUDA and parallel programming in the AWS Cloud.
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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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Grid Facilitates Ozone Predictions

Jan 25, 2013 | European Grid Infrastructure Case Study | Impending climate change linked to increased concentrations of ground ozone.
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Sony Removes Folding@home Service from PS3

Oct 22, 2012 | After a successful five-year run, Sony is ending its participation with Stanford University's Folding@home project.
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Heirloom Computing's ELPaaS Platform Faster than Mainframe Computing Alternatives

May 02, 2013 | The latest benchmark testing by Heirloom Computing revealed that the company's ELPaaS cloud platform for legacy applications is faster than mainframe computing alternatives.
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Pramati Acquires Assets of WaveMaker from VMware

May 01, 2013 | Pramati announced the acquisition of certain assets of WaveMaker from VMware.
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1010data Releases Version 6 of its Cloud-Based Big Data Analytics Platform

May 01, 2013 | 1010data announced the release of Version 6 of its cloud-based Big Data analytics platform.
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IncrediBuild Version 4.6 Gets Games to Market Faster

Apr 30, 2013 | IncrediBuild version 4.6 gets games, software applications and mobile apps out the door by accelerating code builds and the entire application life cycle management process.
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IDC: Big Data, Analytics and Cloud Drive Enterprise Software Growth

Apr 22, 2013 | International Data Corporation released the latest results from the Worldwide Semiannual Software Tracker.
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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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Research Roundup: Toward a More Efficient Cloud

In this week's hand-picked assortment, researchers explore the path to more energy-efficient cloud datacenters, investigate new frameworks and runtime environments that are compatible with Windows Azure, and design a uniﬁed programming model for diverse data-intensive cloud computing paradigms.
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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.