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Aug 15, 2012

Red Hat Debuts Enterprise OpenStack Preview

On Monday, Red Hat announced the preview release of its OpenStack distribution, which allows companies or service providers to create Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) clouds. The large community of OpenStack supporters is pinning its hopes to the open source cloud "operating system" as an alternative to proprietary Infrastructure-as-a-Service offerings, like Amazon and VMware. Read more...

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Legal Aspects of Cloud Computing

HPC and grid/cloud expert Wolfgang Gentzsch conducts an interview with Paolo Balboni, scientific director of the European Privacy Association and founding partner at ICT Legal Consulting in Milan. Dr. Balboni will be featured speaker at ISC Cloud in Mannheim, Germany, Sept. 26-27, 2012, where he will be discussing the legal aspects of cloud computing.
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It's Official - Rackspace Moves to OpenStack

Rackspace is now the largest OpenStack-based public cloud in the world. After a four-month beta period, Rackspace began using the open source cloud management platform OpenStack, which it cofounded with NASA, to power its extensive public cloud infrastructure. The move occurs just weeks after OpenStack celebrated its second birthday.
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Implementing Disaster Recovery Within the Education Sector

Current financial pressures have led educational institutions to look for a more sustainable and innovative way of managing their services, this includes the IT infrastructure that underpins the teaching and learning. The author proposes a cloud-based solution for implementing disaster recovery and business continuity at the college level.
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When Time Is of the Egress: Optimizing Your Transfers

Traditionally running scientific workloads in AWS provides a diverse toolkit that allows researchers to easily sling data around different time zones, regions, or even globally once the data is inside of the infrastructure sandbox. However, getting data in and out of AWS has historically been more of a challenge. Cycle Computing's Andrew Kaczorek and Dan Harris offer some helpful tips on optimizing ingress and egress transfers.
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UCSD, Yale Create Neuroscience Gateway

8/14/2012 | The University of California San Diego (UCSD) and Yale University have been awarded an NSF grant to build a neuroscience gateway.
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Amazon Enables Earthlings to View Martian Photos

8/14/2012 | Now that Curiosity is on the red planet, Amazon Web Services will process pictures taken by the new inhabitant, making them available to NASA researchers and the public.
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Apple Co-Founder Wozniak Says Cloud Will Cause 'Horrible Problems'

8/10/2012 | Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak expresses concern over the loss of control associated with cloud services.
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When Is Cloud the Right Choice for HPC?

8/9/2012 | Cloud technologies have become integral to a number of services including video streaming, file sharing and social media to name a few. But when it comes to HPC applications, the benefits don't always translate.
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Curiosity's Cloud Connection

8/7/2012 | The news media has been abuzz over NASA's recent achievement. The big risk, big reward operation costing 2.5 billion dollars, which included safely landing a mini cooper-sized robot on Mars, paid off.
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GAO Issues Progress Report on Cloud-First Mandate

8/6/2012 | The U.S. Government and Accountability Office has been tracking the progress of a "cloud-first" mandate proposed by the Office of Management and Budget. While headway has been made, agencies are falling behind some deadlines.
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SUSE Gains Traction with Cloud Providers

8/3/2012 | Earlier this week, Linux distributor SUSE announced that more than 20 major vendors are participating in its cloud provider program.
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Appro White Paper: Enabling Performance-per-Watt Gains in HPC

04/05/2012 | Appro | Designed to meet the growing global demand for HPC solutions, Appro's Xtreme-X™ Supercomputer delivers superior performance-per-watt and reduced I/O latency while bringing significant flexibility to HPC workload configurations including capacity, hybrid, data intensive and capability computing.

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.

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Tiffany Trader
Tiffany Trader is the editor of HPC in the Cloud. With a background in HPC publishing, she brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to bear on a range of topics relevant to the technical cloud computing space. More > >

Wolfgang Gentzsch
Independent HPC consultant for cluster, grid, and cloud computing, and for data and compute-intensive applications, and General Chair of the ISC Cloud Conference.
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Jose Luis Vazquez-Poletti
Dr. Jose Luis Vazquez-Poletti is Assistant Professor in Computer Architecture at Complutense University of Madrid (Spain), and a Cloud Computing Researcher at the Distributed Systems Architecture Research Group. He is directly involved in EU funded projects, such as EGEE (Grid Computing) and 4CaaSt (PaaS Cloud), as well as many Spanish national initiatives. More > >

Steve Campbell
An HPC industry consultant and cloud evangelist, Steve Campbell is a seasoned senior HPC executive. More > >

Bruce Maches
Former Director of Information Technology for Pfizer's R&D; division, current CIO for BRMaches & Associates. More > >

John Hurley
Principle Investigator and Director for the National Nuclear Security Administration and DOE sponsored Center for Disaster Recovery. More > >