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October 22, 2014
Blue-sky thinking for clouds in Heidelberg

iSGTW recently attended the ISC Cloud '14 conference in Heidelberg, Germany. The event focused on the intersection between cloud and high-performance computing (HPC), with in-depth first-hand reports on the latest technological developments in these fields. Researchers from a wide range of organizations discussed their work and offered practical recommendations about how to best utilize cloud-based computing.

September 18, 2013
Big data, big opportunities — for science and for enterprise

iSGTW speaks to CERN openlab’s Sverre Jarp, ahead of this month’s inaugural ISC Big Data conference in Heidelberg, Germany. Jarp, who is the general chair of the event, picks his highlights from the conference program and tells us why big data presents exciting opportunities, but also poses challenges, for enterprise and HPC alike. 

October 3, 2012
Why can’t every cloud have an HPC lining?

Industry experts met at the ISC Cloud ’12 conference in Mannheim, Germany, last month to discuss the challenges of achieving widespread adoption of high performance computing in the cloud.

August 15, 2012
Can clouds transform science?

The ISC Cloud’12 conference is on September 24 to 25 2012, in Manheim, Germany. ISGTW is a media partner of the event. As a build up, the chairman of ISC cloud conferences has interviewed a key speaker. Manish Parashar, founding director of large-scale computational resources at Rutgers and the National Science Foundation, talks about the role of clouds in computational and data-enabled science and engineering, and how these applications can benefit from clouds.