Content about cloud computing

As grid and cloud computing evolve, so too will the security surrounding both. Read about current efforts to make these infrastructures more secure environments for research.

Researchers in China have developed TransOS, a transparent operating system and integrated services for the cloud. Is this simply the next logical step following movement towards software as a service?

Due to the complexity of modern computational science, increasing software errors in code are causing the retraction of research papers in major journals. Now, the RunMyCode project offers a platform to reproduce a published paper's code and data that may be the key to not only reduce errors, but could open the door to better quality science across all research fields.

When natural disasters and human conflicts strike, who are you going to call? Geographic information systems analysts, that's who. They provide a rapid frontline service to turn satellite imagery into information that helps internally displaced people.

Scientific computation is a research field with an excellent track record when it comes to technology and knowledge transfer. Now, with the global economic crisis taking its toll on public science budgets, the need for other research communities to learn from this example has never been greater.

Matteo Turrilli, head of the EGI Federated Cloud Task Force, reports on his team's efforts to unite cloud computing infrastructures for the benefit of researchers.

An online tool called Peachnote uses a distributed computing approach to enable instant identification of classical music scores. But, its terabytes of data may also redefine what we think we know about the classical greats like Beethoven and Mozart.

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.

A new and easy way of accessing a global computing grid and the processing power of tens of thousands of cores are at the fingertips of anyone: researcher, student, or citizen scientist.

VENUS-C (www.venus-c.eu) has successfully put the requirements of end-user communities – such as researchers and SMEs – at the forefront of development, providing scalable and interoperable cloud resources that combine both open source and commercial solutions to offer the best of both worlds. With co-funding from the EC under FP7, this two-year project is one of the first cloud initiatives to feature in the European Digital Agenda (DAE).

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.