Comments on: Taking Supercomputing to the Cloud http://gigaom.com/2009/01/12/taking-supercomputing-to-the-cloud/ Trusted Insights and Conversations on the Next Wave of Technology Thu, 26 Nov 2009 19:44:08 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Cloud Computing Is a Tool, Not a Strategy http://gigaom.com/2009/01/12/taking-supercomputing-to-the-cloud/#comment-928078 Cloud Computing Is a Tool, Not a Strategy Fri, 20 Feb 2009 00:00:37 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=35118#comment-928078 <p>[...] The logical solution to these issues is that someone will build a class of enterprise-level clouds, possibly designed to host types of information or applications that require certain service-level agreements, or even to be located in certain geographic regions. Russ Daniels, CTO of HP’s Cloud Services Strategy, agrees, and says HP may even provide a few of these clouds, and will work with customers that will provide even more domain-specific or vertically-focused clouds. [...]</p> [...] The logical solution to these issues is that someone will build a class of enterprise-level clouds, possibly designed to host types of information or applications that require certain service-level agreements, or even to be located in certain geographic regions. Russ Daniels, CTO of HP’s Cloud Services Strategy, agrees, and says HP may even provide a few of these clouds, and will work with customers that will provide even more domain-specific or vertically-focused clouds. [...]

]]> By: Axure http://gigaom.com/2009/01/12/taking-supercomputing-to-the-cloud/#comment-921563 Axure Tue, 13 Jan 2009 12:26:18 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=35118#comment-921563 <p>Graphics processing power for rent over the internet is nothing new. Rendering farms have existed way before the term "cloud" was even invented and professionals (from freelancer 3D artists to ILM-size studios) have benefited from them.</p> <p>The cloud fashion might only make it more convenient and elastic - mixing arbitrary number of CPUs with an arbitrary number of GPUs and running an arbitrary code on top of them is certainly a very interesting prospect.</p> Graphics processing power for rent over the internet is nothing new. Rendering farms have existed way before the term “cloud” was even invented and professionals (from freelancer 3D artists to ILM-size studios) have benefited from them.

The cloud fashion might only make it more convenient and elastic – mixing arbitrary number of CPUs with an arbitrary number of GPUs and running an arbitrary code on top of them is certainly a very interesting prospect.

]]> By: AMD Fusion Render Cloud to be released before Windows 7? | Attack of the Operating Systems... http://gigaom.com/2009/01/12/taking-supercomputing-to-the-cloud/#comment-921445 AMD Fusion Render Cloud to be released before Windows 7? | Attack of the Operating Systems... Mon, 12 Jan 2009 15:50:59 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=35118#comment-921445 <p>[...] It Out> AMD, Cloud Computing (wikipedia), Gigaom, Rating 3.00 out of 5 [...]</p> [...] It Out> AMD, Cloud Computing (wikipedia), Gigaom, Rating 3.00 out of 5 [...]

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