Richard Davies wrote: The UK has a good crop of technology pioneers in cloud computing - for example ElasticHosts, FlexiScale, Flexiant, OnApp - and also some strong government initiatives such as G-Cloud.
We will have to see whether this kind of technical leadership converts into swift mass-market adoption or not.
Yahoo has tied up with Tata subsidiary Computational
Research Laboratories (CRL) to do cloud computing research. Financial terms
were not disclosed.
What CRL brings to the party is the fourth-fastest
supercomputer in the world, a beast that Yahoo figures has “substantially more
processors than any other supercomputer currently available for cloud research”
– 14,400 of them to be precise along with 28TB of memory, 140TB of disk space,
a peak performance of 180 trillion calculations a second and sustained
computation capacity of 120 teraflops.
Yahoo is kicking in its expertise with Apache Hadoop, the
open source distributed computing project.
The machine, which is called the EKA, the only supercomputer
funded by the private sector and available for use on commercial terms, is
supposed to run the latest version of Hadoop and other Yahoo-supported open
source distributed computing software like the Pig parallel programming
language that Yahoo Research developed.
Yahoo says the effort will be the first of its kind in terms
of the size and scale of machine and the first to make a supercomputer
available to academic institutions in India.
Meanwhile, IBM has teamed up with Georgia Tech and OhioStateUniversity to develop
autonomic technology for cloud computing expecting self-managing features for
virtualized data centers in a cloud computing environment out of it.
The project will create a prototype computing cloud that
links data centers at the two schools called the Critical Enterprise Cloud
Computing Services facility and will push Tivoli
as a management tool and SOA to link different software silos running at both
sites.
About Maureen O'Gara Maureen O'Gara the most read technology reporter for the past 20 years, is the Cloud Computing and Virtualization News Desk editor of SYS-CON Media. She is the publisher of famous "Billygrams" and the editor-in-chief of "Client/Server News" for more than a decade. One of the most respected technology reporters in the business, Maureen can be reached by email at maureen(at)sys-con.com or paperboy(at)g2news.com, and by phone at 516 759-7025. Twitter: @MaureenOGara
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