Datacenter Solutions in the Clouds

  • SIGGRAPH 2010: Highlights and Reflections

    After a hectic day at SIGGRAPH 2010 in Los Angeles full of vendors doing anything and everything to vie for attention and accolades, Steve Campbell reflects on some of the most memorable aspects of the show and shares some photos as the event comes to a close.

  • Clouds Over SIGGRAPH

    Noteworthy items and discussion points from SIGGRAPH 2010 as clouds begin to take shape in the graphics, animation and film production industry. Punctuated with photos from the show.

  • Digital Breadcrumbs: Audit Trails in the Cloud

    Storage and cloud companies are taking audit concerns seriously as they realize that simple data warehousing is not a solution. Digital breadcrumbs and file and session tagging will become the key to enterprises confidently adopting available cloud technologies.

  • Even Datacenters Can't Afford to Live in California

    Although admired for its efforts to curb greenhouse emissions via legislation that targets people where they feel it most--the pocketbook--California could be extending legislation that will have a direct impact on the viability of data center construction and operation in the state.

  • Are We Already in the HPC On-Demand Era?

    After the announcement of Amazon's new HPC cloud offering called Cluster Compute Instances, the community has been evaluating what this news means for the overall goal of large-scale computing in the cloud and how it will be realized in the coming months.

  • Delivering HPC to the New Main Street

    Rocky Mountain Supercomputing Center is one of several such centers across the nation providing high-performance compute power to boost local and regional business and government initiatives. This is what Ed Dodds, Director of RMSC calls "HPC for the New Main Street."

  • Cloud.com Discusses OpenStack and HPC Involvement

    Today's announcement from Rackspace about the OpenStack project, which included details about NASA involvement with some of its Nebula code, also identified partners--companies with a direct stake in creating an open cloud enviornment. We talk with one such partner, Cloud.com about their history with the project and with HPC more generally.

  • Amazon’s New HPC in the Cloud: Good Marketing or Real Progress?

    Will average real HPC capability computing applications (e.g. in electronic design automation, automotive applications, or finite-element based material analysis) show a big performance improvement over vanilla EC2 instances, especially those which really demand low latency and high bandwidh?

  • The Low-Latency Imperative and Amazon's New CCI for HPC

    Amazon's newly announced HPC offering in the form of Cluster Compute Instances has made big waves in the HPC and cloud space alike this week but as the surprise wears off, some are asking critical questions about the 10GbE decision and the performance in practice.

  • A Game-Changing Day for Cloud and HPC

    Reflections on today's oddly-timed release of Amazon's Cluster Compute Instances (CCI) which will doubtlessly make the cloud quite a bit more attractive for a wider range of HPC users. It came as quite a suprise to most but is some of the biggest news to unexpectedly hit the wire in quite some time.