SOA World Magazine
"Adaptive Computing President & COO to Present at Cloud Expo Silicon Valley: Michael Jackson to Discuss Building SaaS and PaaS Infrastructures in the Cloud," by Liz McMillan, August 11, 2010.
"In his session at the 7th International Cloud Expo, Michael Jackson, President and COO of Adaptive Computing, will outline approaches to building cloud architectures for heterogeneous IT environments. He will also discuss the pros and cons associated with various architectural approaches to cloud computing."
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HPC in the Cloud
"An Intelligent Public Cloud for HPC—Adaptive Computing Shares News of Cluster Compute Involvement," by Nicole Hemsoth, July 27, 2010.
"In terms of their own contribution to the functionality of the new Cluster Compute Instance type, Adaptive stated that 'Moab technology ensures that cloud resources can be utilized with up to ninety-nine percent efficiency and, when combined with Amazon's EC2 Cluster Compute Instance environment, creates a dynamic and intelligent environment that offers excellent value and return on investment in HPC cloud resources.' "
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HPC in the Cloud
"Amazon Introduces Cluster Compute Instances for HPC on EC2," from Amazon.com, July 13, 2010.
"Amazon . . . today announced Cluster Compute Instances for Amazon EC2, a new instance type specifically designed for high-performance computing (HPC) applications and other demanding network-bound applications. . . . Adaptive Computing provides automation intelligence software, powered by its Moab technology, for HPC, data center and cloud environments."
Read the complete news release from Amazon.
SGI Announces Industry's First One-Stop Shop Website for Advanced HPC Training
Hpctraining.com Offers Courses Led by Industry Leaders from Multiple Companies; Online Forum Facilitates Easy Knowledge Sharing
July 1, 2010
SGI has announced the industry's first complete, vendor-agnostic training portal aimed at the technical high-performance computing user community. The training portal will include such industry-leading partners as Adaptive Computing and other HPC software and system vendors.
Read the complete news release from SGI.
GigaOM Structure 2010
Panel: "The First Step to ROI: Analytics and Management Layers," June 23, 2010.
Michael Jackson, president and COO of Adaptive Computing, participated as a member of this panel at GigaOM Structure 2010 in San Francisco. You can view the entire panel discussion and hear Michael's insights online.
University Business
"Sustainable IT: 30 Tips for Going Green with IT Operations and Equipment," by University Business Staff, June 2010.
16. Leverage proven technology. The SciNet consortium, which provides high performance computing resources to the University of Toronto and other Canadian universities, is thinking outside the box when it comes to being green. By leveraging superior technology such as intelligent automation software from Adaptive Computing, IBM's energy-efficient iDataPlex servers and advanced data center facilities design, the supercomputing center has seen a two-to-three times increase in performance while reducing power consumption by 40 percent. This reduction saves enough energy every year to run 700 homes. In addition to intelligent software, SciNet lets Mother Nature help cool their data center: SciNet uses Toronto's cold winter weather to chill the water that cools their servers, thus saving energy. [emphasis added]
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The Register
"Microsoft and Novell Tag Team on HPC," by Timothy Prickett Morgan, June 1, 2010.
"Microsoft and Novell were at ISC talking up the work they have done in their joint interoperability lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the 33 joint customers they have running both Windows and Linux on HPC clusters. The two companies have worked with cluster management software maker Adaptive Computing to come up with a rapid dual-boot setup that lets clusters quickly shift nodes from Linux to Windows and back as workloads shift. . . ."
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HPC in the Cloud
"The Cloud Forecast for HPC: Preview of ISC '10," by Nicole Hemsoth, May 25, 2010.
"Adaptive Computing is no stranger to HPC or cloud and is one of many companies that will be present at the conference with feet in both waters. Of great interest are its Moab line of HPC products that provide solutions for standard and cloud-based HPC as well as its work with particularly noteworthy HPC and cloud projects, including their work with the financial services industry and its large-scale computing needs."
Read the entire article online.
Integration Developer News
"Adaptive Updates Moab to Automate, Manage Cloud," by Vance McCarthy, May 24, 2010.
"Adaptive Computing is optimizing its Moab unified intelligent management and automation technology for datacenters to help deliver high availability, SLAs and intelligent end-to-end automation to public and private clouds."
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insideHPC
"Adaptive Computing Introduces Smarter Moab Suite," May 11, 2010.
"Last month Adaptive Computing announced the latest release of the Moab Adaptive Computing Suite and a new product, Moab Viewpoint. The new features are aimed principally at banking, financial services and enterprise customers, but that doesn't mean that Adaptive is walking away from their connections with HPC. I talked with Petter ffoulkes (yes, it's supposed to be lower case), Adaptive's Vice President of Marketing, to find out what's in the new release and where the company is headed."
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The Register
"Adaptive Computing Consolidates Cloud Control," by Timothy Prickett Morgan, April 20, 2010.
"When Cluster Resources became Adaptive Computing last summer, the hybrid HPC cluster management specialist promised to ramp up its tools for virtualized servers to boost its enterprise business. And with the Moab Adaptive Computing Suite 5.4, it's doing just that."
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HPC in the Cloud
"Adaptive's Moab Enhancements Beckon to Wall Street: Adaptive Computing Pads Private Clouds for the Financial Services Sector with Moab 5.4 and Viewpoint 1.0 Release," by Nicole Hemsoth, April 20, 2010.
"While its work in the HPC sphere is similar in function to what the company announced, the capability of the newest version of Moab has been greatly expanded in hopes that the relatively small company can experience greater recognition from Wall Street. The release of Moab 5.4 adds a host of enhancements to the existing version that will be important to Adaptive Computing's ideal end user base—the financial services sector. . . . Since more commercial enterprises are looking to create superinfrastructure modeled on HPC and cloud computing, is it possible that Adaptive's entry into this market signals a new era for large-scale enterprise resource management and private cloud adoption?"
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The Salt Lake Tribune
"Adaptive Computing Moves Beyond Supercomputing," by Tom Harvey, April 19, 2010.
"Known for its software that manages many of the world's supercomputers, Provo-based Adaptive Computing has launched its first foray into the world of general business computing with upgrades to products that can manage internal 'clouds' of computers."
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CTO Edge
"Adaptive Computing Brings Self-Service to the Cloud," by Mike Vizard, April 19, 2010.
"IT organizations have been slowly moving toward a services model under which users can choose among a set of pre-configured services that allows them to take advantage of those services faster. Adaptive Computing, a provider of cloud computing infrastructure software, is taking that same concept to the cloud with the release of Viewpoint 1.0 for Moab Adaptive Computing Suite."
Read the entire article online.
Data Center Knowledge
"Adaptive Computing Eyes Wall Street Clouds," by Rich Miller, April 19, 2010.
"Automation is a key driver in the growth of cloud computing. So it's not surprising that a long-time player in IT automation is focusing on the market for private clouds. Adaptive Computing today announced upgrades to its Moab software, which is used to manage and automate the largest supercomputer and data center environments."
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SearchCloudComputing.com
"Adaptive Computing Adapts to the Private Cloud," by Carl Brooks, April 19, 2010.
"As a follow-up to its cloud-based Adaptive Operating Environment, the newest version of Adaptive Computing's Moab software aims to make private clouds a reality for financial service firms and other large, transaction-intensive enterprises.
"Moab manages virtual resources for cluster, grid and utility computing, but the IT automation vendor has expanded its offerings to cloud computing to increase private cloud efficiency and make cloud computing more welcoming to curious enterprises."
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Scientific Computing World
"Unbounded Clusters," by Paul Schreier, April/May 2010.
"Moab can be aware of the network topology and route jobs to nodes or clusters that have high throughput for those jobs that require it. When it comes to GPUs, you configure the software to identify which resources have Cuda processors. Some applications can work in both forms, but you don't want to block them if certain resources are busy, but you can set up an affinity to a particular resource."
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HPCwire
"South Africa's HPC Center Tames Its 'Zoo of Architectures,'" by Michael Feldman, April 13, 2010.
". . . The diversity of HPC systems at CHPC also presents a big challenge. With hundreds of users tapping into the systems, how does the center manage the computer systems so as to maximize overall utilization? That's where Adaptive Computing's Moab technology comes in. Starting in 2010, CHPC deployed Moab, in the form of the company's Adaptive HPC Suite, to help bring the center's supercomputers under a unified management scheme. Rather than having to manually provision and perform job scheduling one machine at a time, Moab sits atop the workload manager on each system and orchestrates them to function as a single entity. . . ."
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Channel Register
"Microsoft's HPC Server 2008 R2 Goes Beta 2," by Timothy Prickett Morgan, April 7, 2010.
"Microsoft knows it has to cooperate with Linux, and that is why Microsoft has worked with Adaptive Computing to get its Moab Adaptive HPC Suite to be able to allocate jobs to Windows as well as Linux nodes in a cluster."
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Network World
"Microsoft Tries to Simplify Supercomputing with Windows HPC Server Beta," by Jon Brodkin, April 7, 2010.
"Microsoft says it will help customers build hybrid clusters that use both Windows and Linux by collaborating with HPC management companies such as Adaptive Computing . . . ."
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Forbes.com
"$10 Million Is The New $100 Million," by Dan Woods, March 30, 2010.
"Once you get all this in place, how do you run the larger complicated infrastructure? A company called Adaptive Computing started in 2001 as a scheduling and modeling environment for large-scale, high-performance computing environments. As computing resources became more controllable through APIs, the company found that its model could be used to control configuration of a large data center to adapt to changing workloads or new conditions. The cloud expanded the range of automatically controllable resources and made Adaptive's model even more powerful." (p. 2)
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Microsoft Case Studies
"Rocky Mountain Supercomputing Centers: On-Demand Model Broadens Reach of Supercomputing with Familiar Environment," March 23, 2010.
"Once users are connected to the RMSC cluster, they can easily use the Job Scheduler to submit their workloads. A great many users, however, submit their workloads through the Moab scheduler, which interacts with the Job Scheduler to schedule jobs. This interaction enables RMSC to more easily implement and manage a single cluster environment that simultaneously runs multiple Linux and Windows environments, each serving multiple workloads from multiple users. . . . Moab federates all our workloads and presents a macro view across all the nodes and operating systems. . . ."
Read the entire four-page case study online.
eWeek
"IBM, Microsoft Help Create Montana Supercomputer," by Jeffrey Burt, February 10, 2010.
Adaptive Computing's Moab technology plays a key role with partners IBM and Microsoft in the successful launch and operation of Montana's new "Big Sky" supercomputer at the Rocky Mountain Supercomputing Centers in Butte.
" 'What this is really about is using HPC [high-performance computing] for businesses to make [the region] competitive,' [Peter ffoulkes, vice president of marketing at Adaptive Computing] said in an interview. 'It's using supercomputing for economic development.' "
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SearchCloudComputing.com
"Private Cloud IT Automation Vendors Brush up Their Wares," by Carl Brooks, February 3, 2010.
" 'One of our customers is talking about cutting out a billion dollars [of IT investment],' said Michael Jackson, COO of Adaptive.
"Jackson said it was one of the largest multinational banks, but could not disclose the name. He too outlined his customers' shift into efficiency in their data centers, saying that was what took his company out of the nonprofit backwaters of academic supercomputing and into high finance.
" 'A lot of companies have been trying to get their data centers as efficient as possible,' he said, and the infrastructure of a modern data center looks a lot like the infrastructure of a supercomputer."
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CTO Edge
"If the Cloud Only Had a Brain," by Mike Vizard, January 19, 2010.
"According to [marketing VP] Peter ffoulkes, Adaptive Computing is pretty far along in delivering on this vision in the form of a Moab management suite that automatically provisions physical and virtual servers, manages workflow, dynamically distributes application workloads, provides a policy engine and enforces service level agreements. In addition, Adaptive Computing has marketing and sales agreements with Hewlett-Packard and IBM in place for its software."