IASA NYC Chapter Meeting July 27, 2010: The Impact of Cloud on High-Performance Computing, a presentation by Tony Iams

[Giuseppe Turitto]

IASA NYC Chapter July 27, 2010 Meeting, 6:00pm
at Microsoft, 6th floor, 1290 Sixth Avenue, NYC, NY
Tony Iams will give a presentation on The Impact of Cloud on High-
Performance Computing

Cloud computing may cause profound changes across the IT landscape,
potentially introducing new methods and business models for delivering
computing resources to a variety of workloads. The promise that cloud
computing can quickly and easily scale up to deliver whatever
resources are required by an application potentially aligns well with
the needs of High Performance Computing (HPC) workloads, which are
some of the most demanding in the industry. HPC techniques such as
simulation and analytics are being applied more and more widely. For
example, compute-intensive workloads such as data mining are being
driven deeper into organizations as more levels of management
participate in identifying new business opportunities from transaction
data. Cloud computing may allow HPC to be adopted without the up-front
investments in supercomputers that would have been required before.
IDEAS recently interviewed a number of end-users about their thoughts
on using various forms of cloud computing for their HPC workloads, and
in this session, we will present a summary of the trends that were
identified in these sessions. The discussion will cover motivations
and expected benefits for users to adopt cloud computing for HPC;
identification of some barriers to the use of cloud for HPC; and some
of the key decision variables that are being considered to determine
whether to host computing on premises or in public clouds.

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