Amazon Web service super computer 10 (AWS SC10), is a nice service added by
Amazon along with its long list of great features that it has to offer its
clients, this feature has been built to fulfil the researchers and people
needs for high performance computing resources.... For more information about
SC10 visit: http://aws.amazon.com/sc10/
You can also have a look on this nice video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnOGzKP4Vdc
I didn't try it yet, but will give it a shot soon isA :) ...
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Edward Screven, Oracle's chief corporate architect, mentioned that Oracle
would not be offering Sun's long-planned and highly-vaunted compute resource
service.
They will just play the role of supplier to components and pieces that can be
used in cloud services;
From the beginning Larry Ellison hates Cloud, and it looks that this will be
applied for Sun as well after the complete acquisition done recently ...
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Mark Shuttleworth, the founder and leader of Canonical Ltd., the authors and
distributors of the Ubuntu distro of Linux, announced the code name of the
new version Friday and noted that the Ubuntu team had several priorities,
including the design of the system’s “look”, according to a CNET
article. The most interesting of the priorities, perhaps, was the inclusion
of cloud computing features as a basic part of the package, especially on the
server side of the release.
The statement released by Shuttleworth was very detailed, although somewhat
metaphorical, in the area of cloud c... (more)
Just came back from HiPEAC summer school in L'Aquila, a city of central Italy
Laid out within medieval walls on a hill in the wide valley of the Aterno
river, and surrounded by the Apennine Mountains
It was a very good opportunity for me to attend HiPEAC 2008 Summer school
this year
I've been into the "Virtualization Technology" course conducted by Leendert
Van Dorn from AMD.
I've also attended other interesting course like "Multithreaded and multicore
processors" course by Dean Tullsen, University of California (San Diego).
I've presented a poster about live migration of Virtual mac... (more)
Never thought about sharing your desktop idle time with others ? ... NereusV
enables idle time donation with a single click on a link in a webpage - there
is no software to download and install. Indeed the software developer can
remotely "push" new versions of application code to NereusV clients without
any action required of the donor.
NereusV is a simple, secure, reliable open source for making computer idle
time available for productive use.
fantastic! I wish I could have more time to test it out and write more about
it ...
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