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The Open Cloud: Management Standards Achieve Interoperability
Enterprise and high performance computing (HPC) IT managers around the globe are adopting cloud computing technologies to deliver higher quality services while lowering costs and improving...
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Windows Azure Ready to Take on AWS
After a lengthy incubation phase, Microsoft is finally ready to release its IaaS product into the wild. Yesterday, the Windows vendor announced general availability for its Windows Azure Infrastructure...
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The Benefits of Bare-Metal Clouds
Cloud computing promises numerous benefits to businesses – among these are agility, scalability, and reduced cost – but the virtualization layer inherent in most public clouds has been somewhat of an...
View ArticleGoogle Compute Engine Enters General Availability
Search giant Google announced this week that its Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) offering, Google Compute Engine (GCE), has gone into general availability. The news comes about 18 months after the...
View ArticleWindows Azure Continues ‘Big Compute’ Rollout
Microsoft is boosting the high-performance computing (HPC) capabilities of its Windows Azure cloud, in keeping with the Big Compute strategy it first revealed during SC12 in November 2012. Just a week...
View ArticleAccelerating the Cloud with GPUs
If you were to come up with a list of transformative technologies to hit HPC in the last decade, cloud services and general-purpose GPUs would rank pretty high. While the idea of using virtual machines...
View ArticleFastest Supercomputer Runs Ubuntu, OpenStack
Although cloud is still widely considered a technology for the masses, the proliferation of cloud within HPC now goes all the way to the highest echelons of supercomputing. China’s National University...
View ArticleIBM Adds InfiniBand Option to SoftLayer Cloud
IBM announced that InfiniBand will be added as a networking option on its SoftLayer cloud computing servers in the third quarter of this year. InfiniBand supports data transfer speeds as fast as 56...
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New Models for Research, Part II
In the second of a four-part series, Jay Etchings, director of operations for research computing, and senior HPC architect at Arizona State University lays out the concept of the campus cloud, a...
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Cycle Computing Orchestrates Cancer Research on Google Cloud
This week HPC cloud software specialist Cycle Computing announced that its full suite of products can now be used to spin up clusters on Google’s cloud platform. As testament to the new partnership,...
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