Comments on: Taking Supercomputing to the Cloud http://gigaom.com/2009/01/12/taking-supercomputing-to-the-cloud/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:14:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Amazon’s Cloud Gets a Supercomputing Cluster http://gigaom.com/2009/01/12/taking-supercomputing-to-the-cloud/#comment-157630 Tue, 13 Jul 2010 13:37:05 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=35118#comment-157630 [...] rise of cloud computing owes a bit to HPC, but for the most part demanding workloads couldn’t take advantage of the cost benefits and flexibility associated with the cloud because of the latency within the cloud and the cost and [...]

]]> By: Cloud Computing Is a Tool, Not a Strategy http://gigaom.com/2009/01/12/taking-supercomputing-to-the-cloud/#comment-157629 Fri, 20 Feb 2009 00:00:37 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=35118#comment-157629 [...] 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-157628 Tue, 13 Jan 2009 12:26:18 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=35118#comment-157628 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-157627 Mon, 12 Jan 2009 15:50:59 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=35118#comment-157627 [...] It Out> AMD, Cloud Computing (wikipedia), Gigaom, Rating 3.00 out of 5 [...]

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