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The Evolution of the Virtual Platform

May 01, 2013 | At the 2013 Open Fabrics International Developer Workshop, in Monterey, California, VMware's in-house HPC expert Josh Simons delivered a presentation on the Software-Defined Datacenter. At its essence, a software-defined datacenter is a prescriptive model for bringing the benefits of virtualization to rest of the datacenter.
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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, 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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Internet Freedom Fighters: Amazon, Facebook, Rackspace and 54 More to Lobby Gov't

Sep 25, 2012 | This week, not one but two groups of IT heavyweights launched with plans to expand the scope of the Internet while protecting the free flow of ideas it provides. The Internet Infrastructure Coalition (i2Coalition) counts already 42 founding members, including infrastructure providers Rackspace, Softlayer, ProfitBricks and Tucows, while the Internet Association's 14-strong roster claims Web giants Google, Yahoo, Facebook, eBay and Amazon.
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NIST Guide Helps Dispel Cloud Mysteries

May 31, 2012 | Cloud services have increased accessibility to high power resources that were typically available only to large enterprises and government facilities. While the financial and technological advantages may be obvious, underlying structures that form cloud services can be mystifying to the end user. The confusion has prompted the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to publish a synopsis defining cloud technologies, including recommendations.
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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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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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Robots of the World Unite

Mar 11, 2013 | European researchers have developed a cloud computing platform for robots.
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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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Cycle Scavenging Startup Gets Its Grid On

Oct 16, 2012 | Portland-based CPUsage operates kind of like the volunteer computing grids, except the startup pays users for their "extra" compute power.
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Riverbed Recognized for WAN Optimization Controllers in Gartner Magic Quadrant

May 10, 2013 | Riverbed selected in Leaders Quadrant for sixth consecutive time.
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Citrix CloudBridge Accelerates Application Delivery from the Cloud

May 07, 2013 | Citrix announced the expansion of its CloudBridge product to incorporate wide-area networking (WAN) optimization capabilities from the industry-leading Citrix Branch Repeater product.
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Prashant Gandhi Joins Big Switch Networks as VP of Product Management

May 06, 2013 | Former Cisco ONE Controller and cloud networking executive joins the market leader in Open SDN.
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AlwaysOn Selects Big Switch Networks as OnDemand 100 Winner

May 03, 2013 | Big Switch Networks today announced that it has been chosen by AlwaysOn as one of the OnDemand Top 100 winners.
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High Availability IaaS Now Standard for ProfitBricks

May 02, 2013 | ProfitBricks announced the availability of true High Availability virtual datacenters for business-critical cloud deployments.
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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.