The Collider and the Grid: Distributed computing made LHC possible
So the LHC is turned on! And it works great. And we're still alive.
So the LHC is turned on! And it works great. And we're still alive.
Track the evolution of high-performance computing (HPC) from clusters to cloud models through the eyes of CERN, with analysis from IDC and technical thought leadership from Platform Computing.
Dreamforce and Oracle Open World surfaced a rhetorical war of corporate responsibility: the clean cloud versus a cloud so compromised on privacy and security it can be characterised as the 'roach motel of clouds'.
SUSE may be leaving OpenStack, but the project has lots of customers and it's getting ready to release its 20th version: Train.
Let's hope no one every gets to invoke it though...
IT companies are becoming industrial-scale consumers of electricity, and as such need to make more responsible choices on energy supply, according to a new report
The European nuclear research organisation is looking at ways of marrying cloud computing with grid and high-performance networking
AWS and Apple have come bottom on Greenpeace's green datacentre scorecard over their meagre use of renewable energy, while Google, Yahoo and Facebook come in for praise
US internet infrastructure was severely affected by Hurricane Sandy, researchers have found, and providers took days to recover from the damage caused by the extreme weather.
What are the issues, challenges and technologies that will frustrate and inspire those working on the cloud in 2020?