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High Performance and Grid Computing in the Cloud

New Discussion Group on Enhancing Grid and HPC with Cloud Computing
By Ignacio M. Llorente
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June 30, 2009 12:00 PM EDT
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The HPCcloud discussion group has been created in order to address the growing interest in High Performance Computing and Grid Computing in the Cloud. The purpose of this group is to present experiences and scenarios by individuals, organizations and projects to illustrate how Cloud computing can enhance the different types of distributed and high performance computing infrastructures in science and engineering. The group covers the following aspects about innovative potential, benefits and challenges of new Cloud technologies and services in High Performance Computing (HPC) and Grid Computing research and business:

  • Cultural, security, political and legal barriers to implementing Cloud provisioning models in HPC and Grid environments
  • Architectures for integration of Cloud technologies and services with HPC and Grid infrastructures
  • Standardization of interactions between HPC and Grid platforms and Cloud infrastructures
  • Limitations of existing Cloud services and technologies for the capability and capacity computing demands of the HPC and Grid communities in the execution of both tightly-coupled HPC and loosely-coupled HTC applications
  • HPC Clouds offering platforms with HPC devices and configurations, and Scientific Clouds offering specific services for the scientific and technical computing community
  • Impact of virtualization on the performance of memory, CPU and I/O intensive, and latency sensitive applications, and virtualization support for specialized communication transports
  • Service and infrastructure scalability and elasticity management for the efficient execution of virtualized HPC and Grid platforms
  • Challenges of porting HPC applications to the Cloud and new computing paradigms for HPC on Cloud

You are invited to use this group to promote your events related to HPC and/or Grid Computing in the Cloud.

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Ignacio M. Llorente, Ph.D in Computer Science (UCM) and Executive MBA (IE Business School), is a Full Professor (Catedratico) in Computer Architecture and the Head of the Distributed Systems Architecture Group at UCM, and Chief Executive Advisor and co-founder of the C12G Labs technology start-up. He held several appointments as independent IT expert for the European Commission and several companies and national governments; and consultant positions at ICASE NASA Langley and Sun Microsystems. Prof. Llorente is one of the pioneers and world's leading authorities on Cloud Computing. He has served on several Groups of Experts on Cloud Computing convened by international organizations, such as the European Commission and the World Economic Forum, and has contributed to several Cloud Computing panels and roadmaps. He is the Director of the OpenNebula Open-Source Project and participates in the main European projects in Cloud Computing. He founded and co-chaired the Open Grid Forum Working Group on Open Cloud Computing Interface. Prof. Llorente has given many keynotes and invited talks in the main international events in cloud computing, and has contributed to several cloud computing panels and roadmaps.