“The HPC community can realize significant benefits from adopting enterprise-capable IT solutions grounded in proven virtualization and cloud technology. And conversely, as business IT environments become increasingly compute-intensive, lessons learned by the scientists and engineers working with HPC can be transferred to their counterparts in the enterprise. It’s a win-win situation.”
HUBzero Conference to Focus on Cyberinfrastructure for Research and Education
September 3, 2014 by
Purdue will host the HUBbub 2014 Conference Sept. 29 through Oct. 1 in Indianapolis. As the annual conference for users of the Purdue’s HUBzero cyberinfrastructure for research and education, the annual gathering has something for everyone, from hub developers and users who want to learn more about the platform to those curious about hubs or interested in deploying the open source HUBzero to establish one.
A Productivity Mindset: How the Cloud is Changing HPC
September 3, 2014 by
“I was rather skeptical about ‘the cloud’ when it first came up. To me, it looked very much like yet another buzzword. However, over recent years I have seen industry and academia alike put some flesh on the bones and there are a variety of activities going on that deserve our support. Pressure from the commercial side, particularly from cloud providers like Amazon that can compete with large national centers, has forced the computing community to focus on what we can do to make concepts like cloud more productive for the end users.”
Video: HPC Cluster Computing from 64 to 156,000 Cores
September 2, 2014 by
In this video from ChefConf 2014, Cycle Computing CEO Jason Stowe outlines the biggest challenge facing us today, Climate Change, and suggests how Cloud HPC can help find solutions.
HPC Virtualization and Secure Private Cloud
September 2, 2014 by
This article is the third in an editorial series that explores the benefits the HPC community can achieve by adopting HPC virtualization and secure private cloud technologies. Virtualization has been proven to be a viable architectural approach that addresses the many challenges mentioned in last week’s article. This week and next we look at the benefits of creating a virtualized infrastructure.
ISC Cloud’14 Issues Call for Posters
September 1, 2014 by
The ISC Cloud’14 conference has issued issued its Call for Posters. The event takes place Sept 29-30 in Heidelberg Germany.
Video: What Linux Can Learn from Solaris Performance, and Vice-Versa
August 31, 2014 by
“How does Linux system performance compare to other OSes, particularly the performance-focused Solaris family? What features inspired by them could be added to Linux? Both are bristling with performance features and optimizations, and it’s difficult enough to fully understand the performance of the Linux kernel and its distributions, let alone other kernels and OSes for comparison. Brendan Gregg has unique insight into the performance features and analysis capabilities of both Linux and Solaris-based systems, which he covers in depth in his new book: Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud.”
Radio Free HPC Looks at the Zennet Initiative
August 25, 2014 by
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at the Zennet initiative, a “public, distributed, and decentralized Supercomputer.” As the brainchild of Israeli computer scientist Ohad Asor, Zennet is essentially a free-market alternative to AWS that sounds a lot like the marriage of BitCoin and SETI@Home.
Ben Golub on How Docker will Change the Datacenter
August 22, 2014 by
“Until Docker came around some people used containers but the use was very much restricted to large organizations, like Google, that had specialized teams and training. But the containers weren’t portable between different environments. With Docker we’ve made containers easy for everybody to use; we’ve made them portable between environments; we made them exceptionally lightweight and we built up a huge ecosystem around that.”
NSF Funds New Testbeds for Cloud Application Experiments
August 21, 2014 by
Today the NSF announced a pair of $10 million cloud computing testbeds for the development of novel cloud architectures and applications.
