Dutch HPC Cloud Running at Full Throttle
Last October a special event took place at Amsterdam’s Science Park. After 2 years of hard work, the first user-friendly HPC cloud infrastructure in Europe is working at full throttle. The collaboration between the supercomputer center, SARA, and grid computing project, BiG Grid, lie behind this epic milestone.
The result of this collaboration is a HPC Cloud infrastructure with usability for the scientific community and performance in mind. On one hand, scientists can use a computer environment that is virtually identical to the environment they are used to. On the other, they get access to self-service and dynamically scalable high performance computing resources, which can be configured with a high level of detail.
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by Jose Luis Vazquez-Poletti
Source: HPC in the CLoud, 19 October 2011
