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Informatics: Ray Ozzie, Microsoft, Chief Architect, on "Cloud Computing"

2009-09-06T19:30:53.499Z

Speakers:
Ray Ozzie, Chief Software Architect, Microsoft

Moderator:
Steven Levy, Senior Writer, Wired Magazine

Join Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie for an expansive discussion on the past, present and future of cloud computing.

Together with renowned technology and business journalist Steven Levy, Ozzie examine the industrys evolution to the cloud, assess where we are today, and explore the potential future benefits and unintended consequences of wholesale adoption of cloud computing by individuals, businesses and developers.

Informatics: IBM & Department of Energy Unveil Petaflop Supercomputer

2008-09-25T16:43:51.786Z

IBM and the US Department of Energy announced an historic milestone in computing, which has enormous implications for a variety of issues critical to society, such as healthcare, life science research, climate change, alternative energy, and financial services. IBM's "Roadrunner" supercomputer, installed at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico to protect the US's national security, hit one-thousand trillion calculations per second, or a "petalfop," in sustained performance. To put the mind-boggling performance in context, it would take the entire population of the earth -- about six billion people -- each working a handheld calculator at the rate of one second per calculation, more than 456 years to do what Roadrunner can do in one day. The performance, which is two-times today's number one supercomputer (from IBM) and three-times the closest competitive system, is driven by the world's first "hybrid" supercomputer -- one that uses Cell processors (the same chips that power today's most popular video games on the Sony Playstation 3), off-the-shelf x86 processors running on standard IBM blade servers, and Linux.. The concept of hybrid systems is an important breakthrough -- it paves the way with software that allows a diversity of commercial and consumer technologies to be linked together for any purpose from a large, shared website to a supercomputer working on a single problem. Roadrunner ushers in a new era for the Internet and Cloud Computing. Until now, supercomputers were isolated, standalone behemoths dedicated to one kind of exotic workload, RoadRunner can provide massive computing power to mainstream applications, shifting computing resources where needed, tacklng larger problems and simulating bigger and more complex systems across industries. For example:

o Medicine. Drive down the cost and improve the acuracy of treaments that can be modeled more effectively before humen trials, speed vaccines for desease and dramatically improve the medical imaging used to diagnose and treat desease.

o Financial Services: Looking at financial risk around the world to predict ripple effects of events around the world.

o Entertainment: Create much more elaborate and realistic worlds on film, TV, games and in internet virtual worlds.

o Weather and climate..create more accurate predictions of major weather events that are dificult to preduct like huricanes and tsunamis, and model climate change patterns based on complex scenarios.

o Oil and gas production. More accurately map underground reservoirs, and analyze the data acquired visually by scientists in the field.

IBM

Informatics: UC, Davis - Ubiquitous & High-Performance Healthcare IT Networking

2008-09-24T12:51:15.536Z

CITRIS video on Ben Yoo and Z. Ding, "Ubiquitous and High-Performance Healthcare IT Networking" program.

Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society, http://www.citris-uc.org

Strategy: HP Labs 2.0 - Reorganizes To Focus on Big Bets

2008-09-18T04:52:58.580Z

At the HP Labs conference, Lab director Prith Banerjee presents keynote new "blueprint" for HP's coporate research arm. HP Labs is now going to focus on "big bets" all linked to 5 main areas: Information explosion, dynamic cloud services, content transformation, intelligent infrastructure and sustainability. What's interesting is the deep consequences this new plan will have on HP Labs structure: going from hundreds of projects to 20-30 big bets. The Labs' more than 600 researchers will now be "regrouped" into 23 separate labs around the world, of 20 to 30 researchers each: smaller teams which should make them more dynamic and responsive to change. In terms of investment, HP Labs will now spend 1/3 of its $150 million annual in exploratory research (versus 10% before), 1/3 in applied research and the last third in advanced product development.

Informatics: Cloud Computing - What is it?

2008-08-03T05:20:41.224Z

At the Web 2.0 Expo 2007, Joyent
asked internet experts Tim O'Reilly, Dan Farber, Matt Mullenweg, Jay Cross, Brian Solis, Kevin Marks, Steve Gillmor, Jeremy Tanner, Maggie Fox, Tom McGovern, Sam Lawrence, Stowe Boyd, David Tebbutt, Dave McClure, Chris Carfi, Vamshi Krishna and Rod Boothby the same question: "What is Cloud Computing?"
O'Reilly - Web 2.0 Expo, http://www.web2expo.com/