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18 hours, $33K, and 156,314 cores: Amazon cloud HPC hits a “petaflop”

One point twenty-one petaflops?!
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What do you do if you need more than 150,000 CPU cores but don’t have millions of dollars to spend on a supercomputer? Go to the Amazon cloud, of course.

For the past few years, HPC software company Cycle Computing has been helping researchers harness the power of Amazon Web Services when they need serious computing power for short bursts of time. The company has completed its biggest Amazon cloud run yet, creating a cluster that ran for 18 hours, hitting 156,314 cores at its largest point and a theoretical peak speed of 1.21 petaflops. (A petaflop is one quadrillion floating point operations per second, or a million billion.)

To get all those cores, Cycle’s cluster ran simultaneously in Amazon data centers across the world, in Virginia, Oregon, Northern California, Ireland, Singapore, Tokyo, Sydney, and São Paulo. The bill from Amazon ended up being $ 33,000.

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VMware and EMC promise app building platform for Amazon, other clouds

Pivotal Senior VP Scott Yara discusses building apps across clouds.
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VMware and EMC recently spun out several cloud computing and big data product teams to form a new, jointly owned subsidiary called “Pivotal.” Today, Pivotal said it has begun operations and will deliver a set of platform-as-a-service (PaaS) cloud products called Pivotal One, making it easier to build enterprise applications on a variety of cloud services.

Pivotal One will be sold “as a unified platform in Q4 2013,” according to a Pivotal data sheet, but some of the products it includes are already available today. One of those is VMware’s Cloud Foundry PaaS software, which will soon be able to operate on both Amazon Web Services and VMware-based cloud networks.

“One of the things we’re going to deliver this quarter is a version of Cloud Foundry showing this cloud-independent model where, at cloudfoundry.com, we’ll be running on both an Amazon infrastructure as well as VMware’s cloud infrastructure at the same time,” Scott Yara, senior VP of Pivotal’s platform and products, said on stage at a company announcement. Pivotal CEO Paul Maritz (and former VMware boss) also stressed the importance of working across different clouds, calling them the “modern equivalent of hardware.”

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Google Keep Launches; ‘Send to Kindle’ Button; Amazon, CIA Ink $600M Deal – PC Magazine

Google Keep Launches; 'Send to Kindle' Button; Amazon, CIA Ink $ 600M Deal
PC Magazine
Notes are stored in Google Drive and synced to all devices, as long as it's an Android phone or tablet running Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich or higher. Users can also access, edit, and create new notes on the Web at drive.google.com/keep. The service

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New security tool serves Amazon Cloud users – IDG News Service

New security tool serves Amazon Cloud users
IDG News Service
At least one QualysGuard Virtual Scanner Appliance license at $ 995 per year is required for internal network scanning functionality on Amazon. For more information, visit the Amazon AWS Marketplace. Keywords: Internet Security Virtualization · Tweet

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