Academic HPC and Cloud Services Start to Blur
August 7, 2014
Grazed from HPCWire. Author: Wolfgang Gentzsch.
Stuttgart HPC Center (HLRS) director Michael Resch will present the ISC Cloud keynote on “HPC & Simulation in the Cloud – How Academia & Industry Can Benefit,” at the conference this September. ISC Cloud, the fifth in the series, will take place September 29 and 30 in Heidelberg, Germany.
As an HPC cloud skeptic in 2011, Resch characterized cloud computing as hype and predicted it would eventually go away. In the following interview with Wolfgang Gentzsch, Chairman of the ISC Cloud Conference and President of the UberCloud, Resch explains why he has come to think much more favorably of HPC cloud over the last three years…
Gentzsch: Michael, thank you very much for making time for this interview, despite your many tasks and responsibilities at the Stuttgart Supercomputer Center. Would you please summarize your major roles at the center?
Resch: Thank you for this opportunity, Wolfgang. Here at the Stuttgart University I have three major jobs: I am the Director of the HPC Center HLRS, the Dean of the Faculty for Energy Process and Biotechnology, and the Director of the Information Center. As the director of HLRS, my major responsibilities are providing computing related services for academia and industry in the field of simulation research and delivering education and training…
Read more from the source @ http://www.hpcwire.com/2014/08/06/academic-hpc-cloud-services-start-blur/