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Argonne Leadership Computing Facility Seminar
"Clouds for HPC: Opportunities and Challenges in Compute, Storage and Networking"

DATE: September 14, 2009
TIME: 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
SPEAKER: David Martin, Visiting Research Engineer, International Center for Advanced Internet Research, Northwestern Univer
LOCATION: Building 240, Conference Room 2.C.1, Argonne National Laboratory

Description:
Researchers have long relied on shared resources and distributed computing,while industry and home users typically have utilized dedicated hardware and single-threaded programs. Recently though, advanced in networking, virtualization and middleware have have enabled many businesses and individual users to move much of their environment to network-based resources. Google, Amazon and others have made vast computing, storage and network available and lowered the cost of entry a few cents. We will examine the evolution of computing toward "the cloud" and explore some of the critical technologies. The cloud presents both opportunities and challenges for users of high performance computing (HPC) infrastructure. Rather needing to develop for a highly specialized supercomputing or grid environment, the cloud promises users a highly flexible environment with any resource dynamically available. However, the performance requirements of HPC software puts unique demands on the infrastructure that current cloud implementations cannot satisfy. We will talk about cloud infrastructures and how they might be customized for HPC, with special emphasis on networking. This seminar is intended to provide an opportunity for open discussion.

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