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Cloud Computing Best Practices

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. 

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Long Haul Interface to Hadoop

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.

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TheSavvyGuideTo HPC, Grid, DataGrid, Virtualisation and Cloud Computing is now available on Amazon

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

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Fast Array of Wimpy Nodes - FAWN Netbook Cluster

Posted in Cloud Computing, Grid Computing, HPC on Apr 19th, 2009

Using a cluster of netbooks researchers have created a powerful server architecture that draws less power than a lightbulb.
Each FAWN node has a single 500-megahertz AMD Geode processor, 256 megabytes of RAM, and a single four-gigabyte compact flash card. The largest FAWN cluster built to date consists of 21 nodes.

Power is responsible for up to [...]

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JPPF 1.8 released and integrated with GigaSpaces

Posted in Grid Computing, HPC on Feb 21st, 2009

The open source Grid Computing platform, JPPF, has announced that it has reached version 1.8 and also announced integration with GigaSpaces to give it a lot of the features it was missing such as clustering, replication, transaction management, data access, etc.
JPPF is written in Java and claims the following features:
- a JPPF grid can be up [...]

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So, is it Grid or is it Cloud ?

Posted in Cloud Computing, Grid Computing on Feb 19th, 2009

In our book (which is finally due out at the end of February !), one of the things we discuss is the differences between pure play Grid and Cloud. Interestingly a recent post by the Cloud vendor CohesiveFT talks about the potential changes in technical sales cycles when evaluating Grid based products. I’m not sure I agree [...]

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