Khalid

To say there is a lot of hype around Clouds would be an understatement. With all the buzz in the market and the visibility that big players like Amazon, Google, Microsoft, IBM, VMware etc have given to cloud computing, it seems hard to ignore. There is enough debate in the blogosphere on the various definitions of Cloud computing and whether its real or just marketing hype. Remember “Utility Computing” or “On-Demand Computing” around a few years back? Without getting bogged down in rigorous definitions...

In this blog, I will outline characteristics of HPC environments and how server virtualization technologies can address some issues, along with some of what I see might be challenges in using these technologies. This blog assumes you have some familiarity with the basics of server virtualization. For a quick overview see Hypervisor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

The typical HPC environment today is characterized by “cluster silos” in which different departments or application...

The High Performance Computing (HPC) area is undergoing quite a bit of changes that may impact how HPC applications are developed, and operated over the next few years. We here in the research group at Platform Computing are tracking a number of technology trends and trying to get a handle on how they will impact the HPC Community. To kick things off here is an initial list of possible areas:

1. Cloud Computing. The advent of services like Amazon EC2 has provided opportunities to...