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Ben Golub on How Docker will Change the Datacenter
"Until Docker came around some people used containers but the use was very much restricted to large organizations, like Google, that had specialized teams and training. But the containers weren’t...
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Challenges on the Road to HPC Virtualization
Although both the enterprise and HPC can benefit from virtualization, the two have had dissimilar requirements. This article is the second in an editorial series that explores the benefits the HPC...
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HPC Virtualization and Secure Private Cloud
This article is the third in an editorial series that explores the benefits the HPC community can achieve by adopting HPC virtualization and secure private cloud technologies. Virtualization has been...
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Virtualized High Performance Computing with Mellanox FDR and RoCE
"The HPC community can realize significant benefits from adopting enterprise-capable IT solutions grounded in proven virtualization and cloud technology. And conversely, as business IT environments...
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HPC Virtualization and Workload Agility
Virtualization allows workloads to be compartmentalized in their own VM in order to take full advantage of the underlying parallelism of today’s multicore, heterogeneous HPC systems without...
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Video: Virtualized HPC as a Service
"The HPC community has had a long-standing interest in creating scale-out environments for running throughput-oriented and parallel distributed workloads. Both large-scale environments (for example,...
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Software Defined Data Center
The software defined data center is the underlying data center architecture that allows most IT infrastructure to be defined in software and to function as enterprise-wide resources. This approach...
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Wolfgang Gentzsch on Linux Containers for Cloud HPC
"One important recent technological development might have the power to change the world of HPC cloud: UberCloud Containers. The UberCloud started in mid-2013 using an open platform, called Docker,...
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Convergence of HPC and the Enterprise Computing
Both large-scale environments and scale-out workloads (such as Big Data) are becoming more important in the enterprise. In fact, with the rise of Big Data, the advent of affordable, powerful clusters,...
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StackEngine Startup Emerges to Automate Docker
Today Docker developer StackEngine formally exited stealth mode and announced $1M in seed funding from Silverton Partners and LiveOak Venture Partners. The post StackEngine Startup Emerges to Automate...
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An HPC Virtualization Update from VMware
Over at the VMware CTO Office, Josh Simons writes that HPC efforts are stepping at the company with new staffing and some exciting InfiniBand performance improvements that could help make...
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Slidecast: QNIBTerminal Plus InfiniBand – Containerized MPI Workloads
In this slidecast, Christian Kniep presents: QNIBTerminal Plus InfiniBand - Containerized MPI Workloads. "QNIB Solutions (early on called ‘QNIB Inc’) derives from the first project Christian did during...
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Pros and Cons of HPC Virtualization
In this special guest feature from Scientific Computing World, X-ISS President Deepak Khosla argues that while enterprise computing makes extensive use of virtualization, it could make a big difference...
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Reproducibility of CAE-computations through Immutable Application Containers
Ensuring a reproducible result of HPC workloads no matter the platform used is key to settle the battle between operations (update fast, due to compliance / security) and end- user (never touch a...
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Docker Containers Come to Cray XC Software
Today Cray announced plans to deliver an HPC-optimized Docker solution for the Cray XC line of supercomputers. Available in 2016, the HPC virtualization capabilities will be offered for the Cray CS400,...
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VMware moves Virtualized HPC Forward at SC17
In this video from SC17, and Martin Yip and Josh Simons from VMware describe how the company is moving Virtualized HPC forward. "In recent years, virtualization has started making major inroads into...
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Virtualization Adds Value, Benefits to HPC Environments
VMware explores the concepts of virtual throughput clusters and CPU overcommitment with VMware vSphere to create multitenant and agile virtual HPC computing environments. The post Virtualization Adds...
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