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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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Warning to Cloud Adopters: Check the Fine Print

Feb 25, 2013 | Central to the attraction of cloud computing is the "pay for only what you use" claim made by almost all service providers. But look a little deeper within the contracts and you will often find that they are not quite as attractive as first appears.
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China's Cloud Positioning and the Prospect of Foreign Outsourcing

Jan 18, 2013 | China has borne less of the brunt of economic recession than we have felt here in the States. In a position to invest capital into the future of their country, one of the major arenas they intend to dominate is cloud computing. This should come as little surprise as spending on transition to cloud computing continues to rise in the most technologically advanced countries.
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SC12: Supercomputing with a Helping of Cloud

Nov 12, 2012 | The SC12 technical forum schedule is impressive for the quality and depth of content and the sheer scope of subjects covered, however this same depth and scope can make it daunting to wade through. For that reason, HPC in the Cloud has pared the list down to the sessions that promise the most relevance to the HPC cloud and grid computing community.
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Government Computing: The Case for Private Cloud

Oct 05, 2012 | Federal IT departments are faced with some tough challenges these days. Not only are budgets constrained, but mandates are starting to stack up like the tax code. One of the most talked about is the cloud-first mandate, but what kind of cloud will it be?
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Windows Azure Ready to Take on AWS

Apr 17, 2013 | After a lengthy incubation phase, Microsoft is finally ready to release its IaaS product into the wild. AWS, look out.
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HPC Clouds – Present and Future

Feb 06, 2013 | Croatian researchers examine the current state of high-performance computing in the cloud.
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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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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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Newvem Analyzes the Cloud

Oct 23, 2012 | Newvem's analytics tool helps solve cost, security and availability issues associated with Amazon Web Services.
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Fujitsu Announces Vertically Integrated Virtualization and Cloud Platform

May 10, 2013 | Integrated System Cloud Ready Blocks reduces system operational costs by up to 60% over the entire product lifecycle.
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WD And SanDisk To Create Solid State Hybrid Drives

May 07, 2013 | WD, a Western Digital company, and SanDisk Corporation today announced that the two companies are collaborating to introduce hybrid storage devices that feature flash memory technology from SanDisk and hard drive technology from WD.
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Citrix Announces Next Generation Global Channel Programs

May 01, 2013 | Citrix is launching two growth-oriented programs, an enhanced Citrix Solution Advisor (CSA) program and a new Citrix SaaS Advisor (CSSA) program.
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Axis Releases Hybrid SaaS Version of DMsuite

May 01, 2013 | Axis Technology Software announced the availability of its DMsuite platform in a "Hybrid SaaS" model.
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Nimbix and Convey Partner to Expand Hybrid-Core Infrastructure

May 01, 2013 | Nimbix has partnered with Convey to expand its Convey hybrid-core infrastructure.
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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.