UberCloud Preps for Round Four of Cloud HPC Experiments
August 14, 2013
Grazed from HPCWire. Author: Alex Woodie.
Since it launched last July, the UberCloud Experiment has held three rounds of trials that demonstrate the viability of running HPC workloads in the cloud. With the fourth round set to begin soon, attention once again focuses on encouraging the HPC community to invest in the development of cloud HPC resources that have the potential to benefit smaller organizations.
While the cloud computing has really started to take off in the last few years, interest in running HPC applications in the cloud has not kept up with spending and interesting levels in the overall cloud market, according to Wolfgang Gentzsch, who co-founded of the UberCloud Experiment with Burak Yenier in 2012…
"About a year ago, we were asking why HPC in the cloud is a little far behind the general cloud computing developments," Gentzsch said in a recent video interview with Primeur magazine. "The cloud market is already developing very fast…while HPC in the cloud is lagging behind. We are trying to find out what are the real hurdles and how we can resolve them."…
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