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Multiple Experts Try Defining "Cloud Computing"

jg21 writes "Even though IBM's Irving Wladawsky Berger reports a leading analyst as having said recently that 'There is a clear consensus that there is no real consensus on what cloud computing is,' here are no fewer than twenty attempts at a definition of the infrastructural paradigm shift that is sweeping across the Enterprise IT world — some of them really quite good. From the article: 'Cloud computing is...the user-friendly version of grid computing.' (Trevor Doerksen) and 'Cloud computing really is accessing resources and services needed to perform functions with dynamically changing needs. An application or service developer requests access from the cloud rather than a specific endpoint or named resource.' (Kevin Hartig)"

IT Jobs To Drop In 2009

ruphus13 writes "A new Goldman Sachs IT report recently released states that IT jobs will be dramatically reduced in 2009, starting with contract and offshore developers. From the article: 'Sharp reductions likely in contract staff, professional services and hardware, and almost no investment in cloud computing.' The article goes on to say 'The CIOs indicated that server virtualization and server consolidation are their No. 1 and No. 2 priorities. Following these two are cost-cutting, application integration, and data center consolidation. At the bottom of the list of IT priorities are grid computing, open-source software, content management and cloud computing (called on-demand/utility computing in the survey) — less than 2% of the respondents said cloud computing was a priority.

Red Hat's MRG makes advances in real-time computing

On Thursday, Raleigh, N.C.-based Red Hat Inc. released its Red Hat Enterprise MRG platform, three separate subscriptions that collectively add advanced messaging, real-time computing and grid computing to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, or RHEL 5. The first two components are available immediately for production environments, but grid computing was released as a technology "preview" and will be available as a fully supported product in a few months.

BOINC Now Available For GPU/CUDA

GDI Lord writes "BOINC, open-source software for volunteer computing and grid computing, has posted news that GPU computing has arrived! The GPUGRID.net project from the Barcelona Biomedical Research Park uses CUDA-capable NVIDIA chips to create an infrastructure for biomolecular simulations. (Currently available for Linux64; other platforms to follow soon. To participate, follow the instructions on the web site.) I think this is great news, as GPUs have shown amazing potential for parallel computing."

Secure Computing Strengthens Secure Firewall with Geo-Location Identification and Blocking

Secure Computing Corporation (NASDAQ: SCUR), a leading enterprise gateway security company, today unveiled Secure Firewall (formerly known as Sidewinder®) Geo-Location, a new service that allows organizations to create policies that block connections by an IP address (for any network protocol/application), based on country code information. Secure Computing's Secure Firewall is the first and only firewall to provide organizations with the ability to reduce their exposure to attack by essentially shrinking the size of the Internet. Geo-Location does this by blocking or allowing the organization to apply additional in-depth application filtering on all traffic from countries that they do not do business with, or that are known originators of malicious hacking.

Panasas and Penguin Computing Partner to Improve Manageability of Linux-Based Cluster Solutions

FREMONT, Calif. and SAN FRANCISCO, July 1 -- Panasas, Inc., the global leader in parallel storage solutions, and Penguin Computing, a leading provider of Linux cluster solutions, today announced their plans to bring to market a comprehensive compute and storage solution that will deliver unprecedented productivity and ease of use to the fastest growing segments of the technical computing market. The solution tightly integrates Panasas(R) ActiveStor parallel storage with Penguin's Scyld ClusterWare Linux clustering software and Penguin server platforms. The result is a powerful compute and storage solution designed to yield the fastest time to results with the greatest ease of use available on the market today, providing organizations of all sizes and expertise levels increased productivity and lower total cost of ownership (TCO).

Panasas and Penguin Computing Partner to Improve Manageability of Linux-Based Cluster Solutions

FREMONT, Calif. and SAN FRANCISCO, July 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Panasas, Inc., the global leader in parallel storage solutions, and Penguin Computing, a leading provider of Linux cluster solutions, today announced their plans to bring to market a comprehensive compute and storage solution that will deliver unprecedented productivity and ease of use to the fastest growing segments of the technical computing market. The solution tightly integrates Panasas(R) ActiveStor parallel storage with Penguin's Scyld ClusterWare Linux clustering software and Penguin server platforms. The result is a powerful compute and storage solution designed to yield the fastest time to results with the greatest ease of use available on the market today, providing organizations of all sizes and expertise levels increased productivity and lower total cost of ownership (T

Diamonds Key To Quantum Computing

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "Scientists P. Neumann, N. Mizuochi & co. have advanced quantum computing by finding a new method to get two-way and three-way, high quality quantum correlations that persist for hundreds or thousands of microseconds, even at room temperature. Their paper (subscription required) describes how they manipulated electrons from nitrogen vacancies in diamond using microwaves to entangle adjacent carbon-13 nuclei. Even better, this builds on previous results which indicate that diamonds with nitrogen impurities may be the key to creating useful quantum computing devices. The article provides a good description of what nitrogen vacancies are and why they prove useful."

Customers, Partners Run Top Supercomputers on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for High Performance Computing

According to TOP500, a project that tracks and detects trends in high-performance computing, SUSE Linux Enterprise is the Linux* of choice on the world's largest HPC supercomputers today. Of the top 50 supercomputers worldwide, 40 percent are running on SUSE Linux Enterprise, including the top three -- IBM* eServer Blue Gene at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, IBM eServer BlueGene/P (JUGENE) at the Juelich Research Center and SGI* Altix 8200 at the New Mexico Computing Applications Center.

Customers, Partners Run Top Supercomputers on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for High Performance Computing

WALTHAM, Mass., June 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Supercomputers around the world are running on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server from Novell(R). According to TOP500, a project that tracks and detects trends in high-performance computing, SUSE Linux Enterprise is the Linux* of choice on the world's largest HPC supercomputers today. Of the top 50 supercomputers worldwide, 40 percent are running on SUSE Linux Enterprise, including the top three -- IBM* eServer Blue Gene at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, IBM eServer BlueGene/P (JUGENE) at the Juelich Research Center and SGI* Altix 8200 at the New Mexico Computing Applications Center.

Customers, Partners Run Top Supercomputers on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for High Performance Computing

WALTHAM, Mass., June 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Supercomputers around the world are running on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server from Novell(R). According to TOP500, a project that tracks and detects trends in high-performance computing, SUSE Linux Enterprise is the Linux* of choice on the world's largest HPC supercomputers today. Of the top 50 supercomputers worldwide, 40 percent are running on SUSE Linux Enterprise, including the top three -- IBM* eServer Blue Gene at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, IBM eServer BlueGene/P (JUGENE) at the Juelich Research Center and SGI* Altix 8200 at the New Mexico Computing Applications Center.

Customers and partners tun top supercomputers on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for High Performance Computing

11 June 2008 Supercomputers around the world are running on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server from Novell. According to TOP500, a project that tracks and detects trends in high-performance computing, SUSE Linux Enterprise is the Linux of choice on the world's largest HPC supercomputers today. Of the top 50 supercomputers worldwide, 40 percent are running on SUSE Linux Enterprise, including the top three - IBM eServer Blue Gene at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, IBM eServer BlueGene/P (JUGENE) at the Juelich Research Center and SGI Altix 8200 at the New Mexico Computing Applications Center.

Scaling Large Projects With Erlang

Delchanat points out a blog entry which notes, "The two biggest computing-providers of today, Amazon as well as Google, are building their concurrent offerings on top of really concurrent programming languages and systems. Not only because they want to, but because they need to. If you want to build computing into a utility, you need large real-time systems running as efficiently as possible. You need your technology to be able to scale in a similar way as other, comparable utilities or large real-time systems are scaling — utilities like telephony and electricity. Erlang is a language that has all the right properties and mechanisms in place to do what utility computing requires. Amazon SimpleDB is built upon Erlang. IMDB (owned by Amazon) is switching from Perl to Erlang.

New NVIDIA Tesla Doubles the Performance for Thousands of CUDA Developers Worldwide

From video encoding to oil and gas exploration and from medical imaging to scientific research, thousands of CUDA developers in the high performance computing (HPC) community are leveraging a revolutionary GPU computing platform that was announced just one year ago. With over 60,000 downloads of the C-compiler to date, the combination of CUDA™ and Tesla® technologies have been the foundation for industry changing applications, making it the most rapidly adopted GPU computing technology platform in the HPC community.

New NVIDIA Tesla Doubles the Performance for Thousands of CUDA Developers Worldwide

DRESDEN, Germany, June 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- From video encoding to oil and gas exploration and from medical imaging to scientific research, thousands of CUDA developers in the high performance computing (HPC) community are leveraging a revolutionary GPU computing platform that was announced just one year ago. With over 60,000 downloads of the C-compiler to date, the combination of CUDA(TM) and Tesla(R) technologies have been the foundation for industry changing applications, making it the most rapidly adopted GPU computing technology platform in the HPC community.

Intel: NVIDIA's CUDA will be an "interesting footnote" in history

Speaking with CustomPC, Intel Senior Vice President Pat Gelsinger said that NVIDIA's CUDA initiative and other programming models like CUDA, which harnesses the power of the GPU to perform tasks that have traditionally been handled by CPUs will be an "interesting footnote in the history of computing annals". According to Gelsinger, developers aren't willing to learn to program for it: "The problem that we’ve seen over and over and over again in the computing industry is that there’s a cool new idea, and it promises a 10x or 20x performance improvements, but you’ve just got to go through this little orifice called a new programming model,’ Gelsinger explained to Custom PC. Those orifices, says Gelsinger, have always been ‘insurmountable as long as the general purpose computing models evolve into the future.

NVIDIA's CUDA will be an "interesting footnote" in h

Speaking with CustomPC, Intel Senior Vice President Pat Gelsinger said that NVIDIA's CUDA initiative and other programming models like CUDA, which harnesses the power of the GPU to perform tasks that have traditionally been handled by CPUs will be an "interesting footnote in the history of computing annals". According to Gelsinger, developers aren't willing to learn to program for it: "The problem that we’ve seen over and over and over again in the computing industry is that there’s a cool new idea, and it promises a 10x or 20x performance improvements, but you’ve just got to go through this little orifice called a new programming model,’ Gelsinger explained to Custom PC. Those orifices, says Gelsinger, have always been ‘insurmountable as long as the general purpose computing models evolve into the future.

Computing Technology Industry Association Announces Update Plan for CompTIA Linux+ Certification

News , Press Release and Blog Computing Technology Industry Association Announces Update Plan for CompTIA Linux+ Certification

Secure Computing Positioned as "Top Player" in Radicati Group's Corporate Web Security Market Quadrant

Secure Computing Corporation (NASDAQ: SCUR), a leading enterprise gateway security company, today announced that its Secure Web (formerly Webwasher®) has been positioned as a "Top Player" in The Radicati Group's new market brief, "Corporate Web Security - Market Quadrant 2008." Published in June 2008, the brief evaluates nine vendors and focuses only on the Corporate Web Security segment of the Security Market, which according to the report, is expected to grow in value from $531 million in 2008 to $1.1 billion by 2012. The full market brief is available for review at www.securecomputing.com.

Secure Computing unveils new Secure Firewall Geo-Location service

Secure Computing Corporation, a leading enterprise gateway security company, has launched Secure Firewall (formerly known as Sidewinder) Geo-Location, a new service that allows organizations to create policies that block connections by an Internet Protocol address based on country code information, and is the first and only firewall feature that supports geo-based reputation filtering.

Seven cloud-computing security risks

Cloud computing is picking up traction with businesses, but before you jump into the cloud, you should know the unique security risks it entails

EOS Payment selects Secure Computing's secure firewall services

Secure Computing, a provider of enterprise gateway security services, has announced that EOS Payment Solutions has selected the company's Secure Firewall to ensure security and manageability, while complying with the new payment card industry data security standard.

EOS Payment Solutions Employs Secure Computing's Secure Firewall for PCI Compliance

Secure Computing Corporation (NASDAQ: SCUR), a leading enterprise gateway security company, today announced that EOS Payment Solutions has selected the company's Secure Firewall (formerly known as Sidewinder®) to ensure comprehensive security and manageability while complying with the new Payment Card Industry (PCI ) Data Security Standard (DSS).

Untangled Quantum Quirk Is Significant Step Toward Quantum Computing

Quantum computing has been hailed as the next leap forward for computers, promising to catapult memory capacity and processing speeds well beyond current limits. Several challenging problems need to be cracked, however, before the dream can be fully realized.

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