World's largest Cloud Storage System designed by SDSC

San Diego Supercomputer Center (or SDSC) has designed the World's largest Cloud Storage System that is specifically targeted for academic and research use. Dubbed the SDSC Cloud, the total cloud capacity will start at raw capacity of 5.5 PBand is scalable to "Hundreds of Petabytes". Rates are starting at US$3.46 a month for 100GB storage.

For more information do look at

1. San Diego Supercomputer Center launches world's largest academic cloud storage system 
2. SDSC Cloud Storage Services

IBM HPC Management Suite for Cloud

Do look at IBM Management Suite for Cloud . According to the site, the list of comprehensive tools include

1. Provisions bare metal high performance compute clusters for technical computing and analysis workloads.
2. Consolidates the infrastructure for efficient sharing of HPC resources.
3. Accesses the HPC infrastructure through an on-demand, self-service web portal optimized for HPC users and administrators.
4. Achieves rapid image deployment and resource management using diskless provisioning.
5. Centralizes user and energy management, usage metering and accounting.

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Definition of Cloud Computing (Draft)

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Definition of Cloud Computing (Draft) can be found in this website from NIST. This definition is very clear.

1. The NIST Definition of Cloud Computing (Draft) (pdf)

The essential services are

1. On-demand self-service
2. Broad network access 
3. Resource pooling. 
4. Rapid elasticity. 
5. Measured Service. 

Service Models:

1. Cloud Software as a Service (SaaS).
2. Cloud Platform as a Service (PaaS).
3. Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).

Deployment Models:

1. Private cloud
2. Community cloud
3. Public cloud
4. Hybrid cloud

Read the article for more information

Singapore university and IBM cooperate on cloud

Interesting Article on a Singapore University and IBM collaboration on Cloud.
HPC Cloud to be exact

See Singapore university and IBM cooperate on cloud (Future Gov Asia Pacific)

Yahoo! to open source floating its "internal serving" cloud

This article taken from The Register titled "Yahoo! to open source floating Google-Amazon crossbreed"

Early next year, Yahoo! intends to open source its internal "cloud serving" platform, described as something halfway between Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud and Google's App Engine....................

Moving HPC Applications to Cloud - The Practitioner Prospective

This is a very good summarise presentation by Victoria Livschitz, CEO of Grid Dynamics on some of the issues and challenges we will face when we unify Cloud and HPC into HPC-Cloud.

Read this: Moving HPC Applications to Cloud - The Practitioner Prospective