Cloud computing began by focusing on improving the application architecture for systems of engagement, but had little to offer in terms of high-performance computing. Today, leading cloud providers ...

For applications that are highly scalable, utilizing the CPU cores or the accelerator cores may not be enough. That’s when the IT department may deploy a cluster. By clustering a number of these ...

AppZero, formally Trigence, demonstrated a different approach to allowing organizations to take advantage of the computing resources made available by hosting suppliers at Demo 09. Rather than taking ...

Hypervisor technology has been one of the building blocks of cloud computing from the start. In recent years, though, this method of “virtualization” to separate a computer’s operating system and ...

A partnership of seven leading bioinformatics research and academic institutions called eMedLab is using a new private cloud, HPC environment and big data system to support the efforts of hundreds of ...

PrimaCloud CEO David Durkee discusses how the company's new offering gives cloud computing an enterprise-class performance, SLAs, and cost reductions David Durkee, CEO of PrimaCloud, talks with me ...

Desktops are diversifying. Long after we all collectively moved off of the traditional desk desktop (i.e the mostly wooden one, where you might still keep your coffee, spectacles and pens these days), ...

Red Hat Inc. is using the KubeCon/CloudNativeCon virtual exposition kicking off today to underscore its intentions to be to the Kubernetes container orchestrator what Red Hat Enterprise Linux is to ...

Neil Bright is a research scientist and chief HPC architect at the Georgia Institute of Technology’s Office of IT. The face of supercomputing has changed — a lot. A new breed of commodity servers ...