A Conversation on Cloud Computing, PaaS, Distributed Systems & Marketing Message Cleanups…
This video is a discussion between Ben Kepes @benkepes, Clive Boulton @ic, Rakesh Malhotra @rakeshm and Sam Johnston @samj. We tackle recent cloud computing trends, PaaS, distributed systems and cleaning up messaging around the mess marketing has made of “cloud”. Cloud Computing, PaaS, Distributed Systems and Cleaning the Marketing Mess from Adron Hall on Vimeo. […]
Cloud Computing and Distributed Computing, Something is Broken
First off, I’m going to start off with some definitions to clarify things for this conversation. Cloud Computing, in general, has been perverted to mean almost anything available for sale today in technology. It’s rhetorically stupid. But we all still use the term to some degree. Going back to cloud computing at the core, we’re […]
SITREP – Stoking Iron Foundry, Thor Hammering & Joining… ?
What have I been up to? Here’s a quick recap. You may want to get involved with some of these projects! Iron Foundry & Tier 3 Web Fabric Back when I left the kick ass team at Russell Investments in Seattle I stepped directly to bat as team lead at Tier 3. My job, get a […]
The Benefits of Letting Others Recast Your Problem
At the recent Spigit Innovation Summit, MIT professor and leading Enterprise 2.0 thinker Andrew McAfee related the crowdsourcing story of Foldit, about which he also blogged. Foldit is an online game where rank amateurs can try their hand at folding pr…
Rethinking The Cloud: From Client/Server To P2P
We are still at the early days of Cloud Computing and the technologies underlying this concept are maturing fast. However, the services offered by different vendors are facing downtimes. In fact, such downtimes were part of even the traditional infrastructure approaches like On-Premise hosting and Managed hosting too. Since, Cloud Computing is a new technology, […]
Academic Research On Cloud Computing Gets Funded
According to HPC Wire, San Diego Supercomputer Center is getting funded by NSF for research on Cloud Computing. Researchers from the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, have been awarded a two-year, $450,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to explore new ways for academic researchers to manage extremely large data sets […]
LHC Computing Grid and the New Era of Scientific Computing
Image by Image Editor via Flickr The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) Project at CERN, European Organization for Nuclear Research, is the largest particle physics project in the world, collecting enormous amounts of data. To give you a perspective on the amount of data we are talking here, let me quote this article from Yahoo News. […]
