Cloud Computing: Want to Snapshot Your Supercomputer?

Grazed from HPCWire. Author: Tiffany Trader.

Nimbix, Inc., one of the original HPC cloud vendors, sought to usher in a new era of heterogeneous cloud computing with the unveiling of its JARVICE platform in November. The platform-as-a-service offering uses high performance cloud hardware to create Nimbix Application Environments (NAEs) for high throughput batch processing. Once the environments are created and deployed to JARVICE, runtimes can be executed in the Nimbix Accelerated Compute Cloud (NACC).

Nimbix has always emphasized heterogenous computing through acceleration hardware such as the latest NVIDIA GPUs, Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors, Texas Instruments DSPs, and FPGAs, and JARVICE puts this technology to work in cloud with the benefits of bare-metal performance…

Although the platform debuted several months ago, Nimbix Chief Executive Officer Steve Hebert presents a rather interesting use case in a recent blog entry: snapshotting a supercomputer. “What if you could quickly build a Hadoop cluster in the cloud, and then snapshot it for later use on demand?” inquires Hebert…

Read more from the source @ http://www.hpcwire.com/2014/04/16/want-snapshot-supercomputer/

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