Clouds, Supercomputing Shine at Bio-IT World Cloud Summit
September 13, 2012
Grazed from BioIT World. Author: Kevin Davies.
A variety of cloud computing and supercomputing resources and applications shone brightly at the Bio-IT World Cloud Summit* in San Francisco this week. Miron Livny (University of Wisconsin) opened the three-day conference discussing the Open Science Grid (OSG), which played a critical role in providing the compute power for the provisionally successful search for the Higgs boson earlier this year.
The OSG logged some 712 million CPU hours last year, almost 2 million CPU hours/day, on 1 Petabyte (PB) data. Other applications include analysis of structural variants on a genome-wide scale, and modeling the 3D conformation of DNA…
Future challenges, Livny said, included what he called the “portability challenge” and the “provisioning challenge.” The former was how to make sure a job running on a desktop can also run on as many “foreign” resources as possible. The latter was being addressed by using targeted spot instances in the Amazon cloud, with prices dropping below 2 cents/hour. “Use it when the price is right, get out as fast as possible when the price is wrong,” Livny advised…
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