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On the Verge of Cloud 2.0

Apr 26, 2013 | Last week Mellanox debuted a new network adapter, ConnectX-3 Pro, the first interconnect solution to feature cloud offload engines for overlay networks. Like its predecessor, ConnectX-3, it supports both 10/40 Gigabit Ethernet as well as 56Gb/s InfiniBand, but it's the overlay offloading engine that is poised to unlock cloud's potential.
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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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UK Creates Massive 200,000-Core 'HPC Service'

Feb 07, 2013 | The United Kingdom is rapidly ramping up its HPC capabilities. The nation just launched its third HPC service in the last 12 months, a 200,000-core powerhouse, called "Accelerator," designed to accommodate a wide range of academic and industry workloads.
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Microsoft Outfits Azure Cloud for Big Compute

Nov 13, 2012 | Microsoft has unveiled a set of "big compute" capabilities for its Windows Azure offering. The company is courting the HPC space with more powerful hardware, new instance configurations, and the updated Microsoft HPC Pack 2012.
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Is Amazon's 'Fast' Interconnect Fast Enough for MPI?

Apr 10, 2013 | Amazon's EC2 Cluster Compute instance goes head-to-head with Myrinet 10GigE cluster.
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Amazon EC2 Versus the Competition

Nov 06, 2012 | New report compares Amazon EC2 with nine other IaaS providers on a range of performance and stability metrics.
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Dell Develops Second ARM Server Platform

Oct 30, 2012 | Dell hands over its Calxeda ARM-based server platform to the Apache community.
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Yottabyte Unveils Cloud Operating System

Oct 29, 2012 | The software platform promises to turn commodity hardware and storage components into agile cloud-based datacenters.
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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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Emulex Enhances Connect Partner Program

Mar 26, 2013 | Channel program improvements reward reseller loyalty and maximize partner profitability.
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Cirrascale Launches GB5400 Series GPGPU Blade Server

Mar 20, 2013 | Cirrascale Corporation announced its GB5400 blade server supports up to eight discrete GPGPU cards in a single blade.
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OFC/NFOEC 2013 to Host Optical Communications Exposition

Mar 18, 2013 | Exhibit hall programs to cover datacom, cloud services, software-defined networking, network infrastructure, service provider integration and more.
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Supermicro Exhibits GPU Platforms at GTC 2013

Mar 18, 2013 | At the show, Supermicro will exhibit its extensive line of FatTwin and SuperServer GPU platforms, including the industry's only 1U 3x NVIDIA GRID K2 qualified SuperServer.
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HP Selected by EC to Supply Servers

Mar 12, 2013 | HP has been selected by the EC to supply servers to multiple countries.
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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.