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Video: The HPC Experiment – Paving the way to HPC as a Service

In this video from the 2013 HPC User Forum, Burak Yenier presents: The HPC Experiement – Paving the way to HPC as a Service.

For the 2nd Round of the HPC experiment, we will apply the cloud computing service model to workloads on remote Cluster Computing resources in the areas of HPC, Computer Aided Engineering, and the Life Sciences.

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CohesiveFT Listed as Finalist in Coveted Public Cloud Award

CohesiveFT announces that it has been put on a list for an award in the category of Public Cloud Services & Infrastructure for the 6th International Datacenter Awards.

The need for business application-layer security remains universal, and largely unanswered by IaaS and Cloud vendors,” said CohesiveFT CEO Patrick Kerpan.  ”By combining VNS3 Overlay SDN with IaaS provider infrastructure security features, our customers are able to create and control a multidimensional security solution.”

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Video: Adaptive Computing Named “Cool Vendor” in Cloud Management by Gartner

In this video from Moabcon 2013, Robert Clyde and Chad Harrington from Adaptive Computing discuss the company’s recent announcement that Adaptive has been named as a “Cool Vendor” in Cloud Management by Gartner.

We believe to be recognized as a ‘Cool Vendor’ by Gartner for our cloud management technology is confirmation of our pioneering work in policy-based optimization for this space,” said Robert Clyde, CEO of Adaptive Computing. “Our Moab Cloud Suite allows enterprise IT leaders and cloud architects to maximize cloud return on investment through cost savings in capacity and management complexity. Moab’s ability to perform ongoing service optimization ensures organizations achieve both agility and service performance with their private cloud.”

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Video: Cloud computing for DoD

In this video from the 2013 Open Fabrics Developer Workshop, Dr. Virginia Ross from the U.S. Air Force presents: Cloud computing for DoD.

Download the slides (PDF). You can check out more OFA presentations in our Open Fabrics Workshop Video Gallery.

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Video: The Sofware-defined Datacenter & RDMA in Virtual Environments

In this video from the 2013 Open Fabrics Developer Workshop, VMware’s Josh Simons presents: The Sofware-defined Datacenter.

The software-defined datacenter vision took the industry by storm in 2012. It represents a prescriptive model that brings the benefits of virtualization to the rest of the datacenter. Expect to see the move towards a software-defined datacenter accelerate in 2013. Networking and infrastructure security represent some of the stickiest issues when it comes to the drive to a more agile data center. And because of this strong customer interest in SDDCs, you’ll also see more networking vendors and startups modify their roadmaps to steer towards a software-defined networking strategy.

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In this follow-up presentation, Bhavesh Davda from VMware gives a talk on RDMA in Virtual Environments.

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Video: Hadoop MapReduce over Lustre

In this video from the Lustre User Group 2013 conference, Omkar Kulkarni from Intel presents: Hadoop MapReduce over Lustre.

Download the slides (PDF).You can check out more Lustre presentations at our LUG 2013 Video Gallery.

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Video: Ethernet over InfiniBand (EoIB)

In this video from the 2013 Open Fabrics Developer Workshop, Ali Ayoub from Mellanox presents: Ethernet over InfiniBand (EoIB).

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Video: Lustre on Amazon Web Services

In this video from the Lustre User Group 2013 conference, Robert Read from Intel presents: Lustre on Amazon Web Services.

You can check out more Lustre presentations at our LUG 2013 Video Gallery.

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Clouds at a Distance – Can RDMA Enhance Collaborative Video Workflows?

In this video from the 2013 Open Fabrics Developer Workshop, Tom Coughlin from Coughlin Associates presents: Clouds at a Distance – Can RDMA Enhance Collaborative Video Workflows?

You can check out more OFA videos at our Open Fabrics Workshop Video Gallery.

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Video: The New Style of IT – HP Moonshot Update for Moabcon 2013

In this video from Moabcon 2013, Dick Bland and Jérôme Labat from HP present: The New Style of IT: HP Update for Moabcon 2013.

Cloud, Mobility, Security, and Big Data are transforming what the business expects from IT resulting in a “New Style of IT.” The result of alternative thinking from a proven industry leader, HP Moonshot is the world’s first software defined server that will accelerate innovation while delivering breakthrough efficiency and scale.

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