A Supporting Blog for the SavvyGuideTo book
Posted in Cloud Computing, HPC on Oct 30th, 2009
With Virtualisation becoming intertwined with cloud computing it is worth taking a step back and looking once again what virtualisation is, and is not. Virtualisation and Emulation are often compared, but there are a set of important differences. Emulation provides the functionality of a target processor completely in software. The main advantage being that you can emulate [...]
Posted in Cloud Computing on Oct 30th, 2009
The Future of the Cloud by Simon Wardley from Carsonified on Vimeo.
Posted in Cloud Computing, Grid Computing, HPC on Sep 14th, 2009
An excerpt from the our book, on Cloud Computing Best Practices, is currently featured on the Sys-Con Cloud Computing Journal site.
Posted in Cloud Computing on Sep 8th, 2009
The recent Terremark vCloud Express announcement was a welcome addition to the Cloud infrastructure portfolio range of companies, giving Amazon more competition. Competition in any industry is always a good thing, and we can expect to see more of this as Azure comes more and more to the fore and other players enter the market.
The [...]
Posted in Cloud Computing, Grid Computing, HPC on Aug 17th, 2009
Interesting video talk below on Long Haul Interface to Hadoop
Long Haul Hadoop
View more documents from Steve Loughran.
Posted in Cloud Computing on May 21st, 2009
JClouds offers a ninja-grade Java interface to accessing cloud infrastructure. Currently Amazon S3 is supported, with EC2 interfaces in the works, along with plugins for other cloud providers including Google’s AppEngine and the upcoming Sun Cloud offering.
Posted in Cloud Computing, HPC on May 2nd, 2009
Interesting pair of article from Java World in which the first concentrates on the four design principles for writing cloud-ready, multicore friendly code: atomicity, statelessness, idempotence, and parallelism, and the second concentrates on the mechanics of scalability, reliability, load balancing, and more, in cloud computing’s distributed environments.
Posted in Cloud Computing, Grid Computing, HPC on Apr 25th, 2009
It looks like an Eclipse plug-in for GigaSpaces next generation Application server, in which the middleware (Logic, Data, Messaging) is virtualised in Memory will soon be released.
Also NT/e have released GigaSystem Builder as part of their JeeWiz model driven development product range. This also functions as an Eclipse plug-in but focuses on model driven development [...]
Posted in Cloud Computing, Grid Computing, HPC on Apr 22nd, 2009
You can now buy the TheSavvyGuideTo HPC, Grid, DataGrid, Virtualisation and Cloud Computing on Amazon - http://tinyurl.com/cpavj2
Posted in Cloud Computing, Grid Computing, HPC on Apr 3rd, 2009
Interesting post from Shay Hassidim, Deputy CTO of GigaSpaces about how in-memory persistency on the cloud should be the preferred model for cloud deployed applications. Well worth a read.
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