@navopsrob In 2017, AWS rolled out 1,400 new features and 2018 appearsto have continued that remarkable momentum. Last week I had the opportunity to watch themany announcements (and even participate in one) made at the AWS re:Invent conference in Las…
In the burgeoning fields of life sciences, bioinformatics and genomics continue to undergo rapid advancements, churning out breakthroughs and new discoveries never thought possible even a few decades ago. It is astonishing to consider that by 2003, it had taken…
The demands of today’s high-performance computing are presenting IT and research organizations with many changes and challenges as they look to migrate their HPC workloads to the cloud. In particular, industries such as life sciences, manufacturing, and AI/analytics require the…
While you’re at Supercomputing next month, please join us for lunch and an informative session hosted by Univa and sponsored by Red Hat. Special guests from Amazon Web Services and Intel will explore HPC trends and using automation to…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
Version 8.6.1 of Univa Grid Engine has been made generally available. This release represents a very significant update to Univa’s flagship product that reinforces its earned position as the de facto standard in workload management across a wide variety of…
