Tag Archives: HPC Cloud

Cloud technologies are now reaching a level of maturity that is making them appealing to HPC users. Whether using public or hybrid cloud, these technologies offer unprecedented flexibility for users who can create or ‘spin-up’ nodes with specific architectural requirements, use cloud bursting to increase the capacity of their in-house infrastructure – or it can…

Univa recently announced Navops Launch 2.0, an updated version of its popular cloud-automation platform that also includes integrated support for the widely-used Slurm workload scheduler. To find out more, VMblog spoke with Gary Tyreman, president and CEO of Univa. VMblog: Tell us about Navops Launch and what’s new in this release. Gary Tyreman: Navops Launch provides a…

Few aspects of IT have been hyped as much in recent years as the benefits of cloud computing. But new research indicates that companies are not seeing the level of gains expected. Two-thirds of large enterprises aren’t realizing the full benefits of their cloud migration strategies, and they said security and the complexity of business and…

Etsy (ETSY), which started its workload migration to Google’s cloud platform in 2017, aims to complete the migration in 2020. Etsy sees migration as an opportunity to operate more efficiently and better leverage the power of AI to drive sales. Etsy runs a marketplace for handmade and vintage items. As these are unique listings, the…

High Performance Computing (HPC) in the cloud has the potential to improve a wide variety of industries, but this trend is not impressive simply based on its potential—there are already real-world cloud applications leveraging HPC today that have led to incredible accomplishments. HPC in the cloud has enabled research into the effects of Climate Change,…

According to Hyperion Research’s latest market update, the high performance computing business boomed last year. In a presentation last week at the company’s HPC User Forum in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Hyperion chief executive officer Earl Joseph told the audience that HPC server revenue worldwide reached $13.7 billion in 2018, which was a new record….