The Information Sciences Institute (ISI) is a unit of the University of Southern California’s highly ranked Viterbi School of Engineering. ISI is one of the nation’s largest, most successful university-affiliated computer research institutes. The Video, Image, Speech and Text Analytics…
We recently caught up with Rob Lalonde, Univa’s VP and General Manager, Navops, and posed a few questions from our readers. From open source technology to million core clusters, from turtles to golf, here’s our conversation: Univa recently announced the…
Five strategies to keep your HPC applications portable and avoid cloud-provider lock-in For most enterprises, moving at least some workloads to the cloud will probably be a no-brainer – especially for short-term or project-based requirements. In the cloud, you’ll have…
There is a major shift for enterprises migrating on-premise HPC to the cloud. 451 Research surveyed a panel of IT professionals to assess their intent on public and private cloud deployment. The results indicate an estimated 90 percent of companies…
This summer, Univa sponsored an industry-wide survey, in conjunction with Dimensional Research to better understand what key challenges our HPC users are currently facing that are preventing them from moving their machine learning (ML) projects into production. Our goal is…
More HPC users are considering migrating some of their workloads to the cloud than ever before. For those who are in the earliest stages of exploring the possibility of extending their HPC infrastructures to the cloud, here are 5 ways…
Understanding the big three container platforms: Docker, Singularity, and Shifter A few years ago, when the container hype was at its peak, one could have been forgiven for thinking that virtualization was all but dead. Microvisors were the new Hypervisors,…
Avoiding common pitfalls with HPC cloud migration projects It’s no secret that cloud computing is on the rise. While we wait for data on 2018, Gartner estimated cloud infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) revenue at US $34.6B in 2017, a whopping 36.8% high…
Once you have identified your HPC cloud migration strategy, you will want to research cloud providers. Choosing the right cloud provider or providers (some enterprises employ more than one) will depend upon several factors, not least of which is the…
Ten questions we all have but were afraid to ask While some HPC users are mature in their use of cloud, others are just getting started or kicking the tires. In this article, we address common questions about cloud computing…
