The final meeting and review of the CloudLightning project took place in Brussels on March 8-9, 2018. The reviewers concluded that the project has ended successfully and shown excellent progress. It has fully achieved its objectives and milestones as set in the Description of Action. A definitive progress in the …
Data Centre Symposium – Dublin, 16 January
On 16 January 2018, the CloudLightning project, in collaboration with Host in Ireland and IC4 held the first symposium in a series of quarterly events on data centres. It featured talks on legal, policy, business and technical issues and opportunities relating to the operation and design of data centres. Speakers on the day included: …
CloudLightning HPC Industrial Brief and Workshop – Trondheim, 15 January
On 15th January 2018, the CloudLighting HPC Industrial Brief and Workshop took place in Trondheim, Norway, organised by Prof. Anne Elster. At the event, the work the HPC-Lab members did as part of CloudLightning, which included looking at an OPM (Open Porous Media) application, was presented. The event also included …
Future of HPC in the Cloud Briefing – London, 11/12 January
Two final industry briefing sessions were held in London (UK) on 11 and 12 January 2018 at Enterprise Ireland’s UK offices. At the event, Prof. Theo Lynn presented results of research on the current and future critical issues and problems facing HPC and HPC in the Cloud and potential solutions as …
CloudLightning Simulator Launched
We are delighted to announce that after nearly three years of research, the CloudLightning project has open sourced a warehouse-scale cloud simulation toolkit. The CloudLightning Simulator allows researchers and enterprises to test cloud projects at hyper-scale at several orders of magnitude greater than the leading open source cloud simulators. It …
Free Online Course on HPC in the Cloud
The CloudLightning project is pleased to announce the launch of a free open online course “High Performance Computing in the Cloud”, developed in collaboration with the Irish Centre for Cloud Computing and Commerce and Dublin City University. The course will be hosted on FutureLearn, a social learning platform founded in 2012 …
Market Briefing: The Data Center Market
Modern data centers are buildings where computing and telecommunications equipment is located for their common environmental requirements, maintenance and physical security needs. The data center market comprises three main segments: enterprise or inhouse data centers, multi-tenant data centers (including wholesale, colocation, managed and shared hosting data centers) and hyperscale data …
CloudLightning at ISC 2017
The ISC High Performance conference took place on June 18-22 in Frankfurt, Germany. Over the five days, more than 3,200 participants from 60 countries attended the conference sessions and talks. The latest technologies were uncovered at the ISC Exhibition, where 148 companies and research organizations presented their products and solutions. …
GTC 2017: CloudLightning – Merging GPU-based HPC with Cloud Services
Presented by NVIDIA, GPU Technology Conference (GTC) is the largest and most important event of the year for GPU developers. It showcases the most vital work in the computing industry, including deep learning and AI, big data analytics, virtual reality, self-driving cars and much more. The event is comprised of …
Top 20 HPC & Supercomputing Influencers to Follow in 2017
High Performance Computing (HPC) market showed healthy growth in 2016, thanks to new types of storage, I/O and interconnects and advances in accelerators and coprocessors. With the help of the Right Relevance platform and the Twitter HPC community, we have identified some of the most influential leaders working on HPC, …