Update on Cloud Computing: More Giant Companies Join the Search for the Future of Computing Services

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Yesterday (7/31/08) I received a news update from HPCwire about a recent joint venture of Yahoo, HP, and Intel to create a new open test bed for "the advancement of cloud computing research and education."

According to the writer, John E. West:


"The announcement of the Cloud Computing Test Bed is broader -- in scope and scale -- than the previous IBM-Google announcement establishing the Cluster Exploratory (CluE), and all this competition is definitely a good thing for the academics who will have several years of work on these resources. If the research efforts bear fruit, they may also help shape the future of HPC as well.

The physical dimensions of the test bed span six centers on three continents, with hardware at the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA), the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the Steinbuch Centre for Computing of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, HP Labs, Intel Research and Yahoo. Each center will have HP/Intel hardware -- the companies only refer to "infrastructure," so it's unclear whether there will be one large cluster at each site or a farm of machines -- ranging from 1,000 to 4,000 cores that will be used to support cloud software research."

Read more ...


Links:

http://www.hpcwire.com/features/Competition_in_the_Cloud_Yahoo_HP_and_Intel_Join_the_Search_for_the_Future_of_Computing_Services.html

http://raffysaldana.blogspot.com/2008/06/invitation-special-lecture-on-grid.html

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Cloud Computing vs. Grid Computing

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There's some talk about the difference between grid computing and cloud computing. Here's a blog link that offers a basic distinction between the two:

http://blog.rightscale.com/2008/07/07/cloud-computing-vs-grid-computing/

Related Link:

http://raffysaldana.blogspot.com/2008/06/invitation-special-lecture-on-grid.html


Raffy
7/9/08

Melvin Koh (Sun Microsystems, Singapore) On Grid and Cloud Computing: ISGC 2008, Taipei, Taiwan

Photo caption: Melvin Koh of Sunmicrosystems (Singapore) is shown giving a talk during the Industry Session of the International Symposium on Grid Computing (ISGC 2008), 11 April 2008, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan. Photo taken by Raffy Saldaña(http://raffysaldana.blogspot.com)

ISGC 2008

Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

11 April 2008

Melvin Koh
Senior Techinal Specialist
Global Systems Practice
Sun Microsystems, Singapore

Topic:

"On-Demand Computing using Network.com
Network.com
Utility based infrastructure and Application Services"

Vision:

Reliable
Scalable
Multi-source
Multi-tenancy
Predictable pricing
Standard infrastructure