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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 :) ... ... (more)

No Plans for Sun to Build Compute Cloud Like EC2

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 ... ... (more)

Ubuntu 9.10 Will Feature Cloud Computing

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)

Back from HiPEAC 2008 Summer School

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)

Ever thought about sharing your idle desktop ?!

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 ... ... (more)