Nanyang Technological University bridges innovation gap with cloud computing

Taken from Networks Asia



Nangyang Technological University needed to support academic activities with scalable computing resources. It was also faced with the challenge of moving workloads from a private university cloud to AWS during peak times while keeping data secure. The school also had to monitor resources in both on-premise and public cloud environments.
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NTU, based in Singapore, also deployed hybrid cloud infrastructure to allow one contiguous network from NTU to Amazon using AWS Direct Connect. The school also attained secure data storage (NetApp Data Storage Systems) using a storage box mapped to NTU’s private storage.

By deploying the Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure, NTU increased scalability of resources without compromising security. It also achieved greater efficiency through automatic resource provisioning. The new infrastructure also allowed better use of existing resources and saved costs.
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NTU win Silver Award at the 2014 Asia Student Supercomputer Challenge (ASC14)

 Taken from  SPMS Website

Congratulations to Team NTU for winning the Silver Award at the 2014 Asia Student Supercomputer Challenge (ASC14) held in Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou (China).

In the finals, the finalists had to build their own supercomputer system architecture within a 3000W power budget and execute a series of applications including HPL (Linpack), Quantum Espresso, LICOM, SU2, and mpiBLAST (secret application). In the code optimisation category, the 3D-EW code was executed on the world’s fastest supercomputer, Tianhe-2.

During the finals, a new Linpack record was established at 9.272TFlops by Sun Yat-sen University. It was Team NTU's maiden attempt and they were competing amongst veteran teams from China (National University of Defense Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology).
Team NTU was described as the 'dark horse' of this challenge during the preliminary and the final rounds, and they overcame all odds to emerge runners-up in this multinational challenge.

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)

IBM and NTU collaborative effort to converge cloud computing & HPC

NTU and IBM HPC-Cloud Collaboration

1. IBM and NTU announce collaborative effort to converge cloud computing and high performance computing (AlphaGalileo)
2. IBM, NTU to converge cloud computing, high performance computing (Singapore Business Review)
3. IBM and NTU collaborative effort to converge cloud computing & HPC (Twitter.com)
4. IBM and Singapore work on HPC and Clouds (Compute Scotland)
5. IBM-NTU collaboration  (Convergence Asia)