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So we launched the Cloud Innovation Center in Singapore during GridAsia 2009... see press release.

The CIC will make use of Project Kusu/OCS as one of the fundamental building blocks...

We see Project Kusu evolving over time to address more than HPC.. as a provisioning tool.. I see it becoming a useful tool to people building clouds.

For those lucky enough to be at SC08 and picked up the Platform's bjob t-shirt - good for you.

Those not there and missed out on the buzz at SC08.. checked out the awesome T-shirt.





Check back here regularly.. and you may just get yourself one of these T-Shirts... stay tuned... ...

Came across this innovative way to use a Mac 'cluster'...

YouTube - Mac vs PC

Happy Holidays!

Today, we'll have a quick look at OpenMP. OpenMP is a set of programming APIs, and compiler pragmas that support multi-platform, shared memory multiprocessing programming in C/C++ and Fortran. The interesting thing about OpenMP, is that it is a very nice simple way to split loops (for, do) into tasks for multi-threading. Our program has a number of "for" loops in it, so that is the obvious avenue to explore for our particular program.

Anyone can get a quick overview of OpenMP ...

Last week, I attended the "Cloud Computing and Beyond: The Web Grows Up (finally)" conference hosted by SDForum in Santa Clara. The purpose of the conference seemed to be to provide a snapshot of where the software market currently sits with respect to cloud computing right now, as well as provide some vision as to where things are going. There was a lot of great content, mostly in the format of panels, which I enjoy quite a bit compared to just presentations.

There were ...