James Urquhart has a thoughtful post on his blog: Cracks in the Clouds, but the Sky Ain’t Fallin’ This last couple of weeks have been filled with challenges to those preaching the gospel of cloud computing. First it was a paper delivered by three Microsoft researchers describing in detail the advantages of small, geo-diverse, distributed […]
Tech on display at the High Productivity HPC event in Houston
October 1, 2008 by
Yesterday Cluster Resources announced [WARNING: PDF] their participation in High Productivity HPC, October 2 at PCPC Direct’s headquarters in Houston, Texas. Other partners in the event include HP, Microsoft, and PCPC Direct — a provider of high-performance technology solutions in specialized sectors like oil and gas. Cluster Resources will demonstrate the Moab Hybrid Cluster—an HPC […]
BEinGRID Publishes Grid Success Paper
October 1, 2008 by
BEinGRID, Europe’s lartgest research project in grid computing, as released a free booklet containing case studies and background information on successful business-focused grid computing implementations. The showcase booklet is called “Better Business Using Grid Solutions.” It features solutions such as high-end/web-based simulation environments, automatic supply chain management, data backup and risk management for the financial […]
Clouds: Ellison isn't a fan
September 30, 2008 by
This is circuitous, but hang with me: Nick Carr pointed to a Larry Ellison rant on the hype around clouds in the general IT industry that was blogged by Ben Worthen at the WSJ. Larry apparently waxed honest during an Oracle analyst call last week The interesting thing about cloud computing is that we’ve redefined […]
SAIC Lands National Cancer Institute Contract
September 29, 2008 by
Science Applications International Corporation [SAIC] announced this morning that it was awarded the a follow-on contract by the National Cancer Institute [NCI]. The contract is slated to provide operations and technical support to NCI’s Federally Funded Research and Development Center [FFRDC] in Frederick, MD. The FFRDC is one of only 38 national labs in the […]
Video tour of new Intel datacenter
September 26, 2008 by
Data Center Knowledge has posted a video wherein Intel trundles a camera through a recently converted fab shop to showcase a high density datacenter transformation. It’s like Extreme Makeover for Geeks. Here’s an interesting data center retrofit: Intel Corp. converted one of its silicon chip fabrication facilities into a high-density data center, and has provided […]
Star-P (soon to be) available on Windows HPC Server
September 26, 2008 by
Interactive Supercomputing announced earlier this week that Star-P will support Windows HPC Server 2008. A preview of the software was shown at the High Performance on Wall Street Conference in New York (see, I got the name right this time). Star-P is an application development platform that allows scientists, engineers and analysts to code algorithms […]
IBM's new datacenter dashboard
September 25, 2008 by
A quickie from IBM about the rev of their IBM Systems Director software to 6.1 IBM…announced an “intelligent dashboard” that will allow clients to view, maintain and adjust the energy consumption, performance, and hardware utilization of their multi-system, virtualized environment — all in a single view. …The next-generation IBM Systems Director software now has integrated […]
IBM adds visualization to On Demand offering, too
September 25, 2008 by
A couple days ago I posted about IBM’s $99 Windows HPC Server test drive. Something I missed in the release is the addition of visualization services for remote users IBM also said that it would make available to on-demand users its high-end 3D visualization engine known as Deep Computing Visualization (DCV). Already used by clients […]
Location independence in the cloud not always a good thing
September 18, 2008 by
Interesting post at the All Things Distributed blog about location independence: For many the “Cloud” in Cloud Computing signifies the notion of location independence; that somewhere in the internet services are provided and that to access them you do not need any specific knowledge of where they are located. …However for developers to do their […]
