Cloud Expo
"Adaptive Computing Talks to SYS-CON.TV at Cloud Expo Silicon Valley" by Jeremy Geelan, December 14, 2011
Content Chaos by ETM (Turn to pg 64)
"Simplifying Cloud Confusion" by Michael Jackson, Q4 2011
Listen to the Podcast (click here)
Data Center Knowledge
"Best of Industry Perspectives: Cloud," by Colleen Miller, November 25, 2011
Networking This blog
"Adaptive Computing Addresses Converging HPC-Cloud Market," by Steve Wexler, November 23, 2011
TMCNet InfoTech Spotlight
"Adaptive Computing Announces New Moab HPC Suite - Enterprise Edition," by Anshu Shrivastava, November 23, 2011
Network Computing
"Adaptive Computing Addresses Converging HPC-Cloud Market," by Steve Wexler, November 23, 2011
Scientific Computing
"Moab HPC Suite," November 18, 2011
HPC In the Cloud
"Adaptive Computing Targets Enterprise HPC Space, Demos Cloud Bursting Solution," by Tiffany Trader, November 16, 2011
TMCNet
"Adaptive Computing Announces Availability of Its New TORQUE 4.0 Beta for HPC Jobs and Resource Management by Calvin Azuri, November 16, 2011
Campus Technology
"Adaptive Computing Releases Free TORQUE 4.0 Beta," by Leila Meyer, November 15, 2011
HPCWire:
"2011 Annual HPCwire Readers’ Choice Awards," November 15, 2011
Market Watch
"Scyld ClusterWare and Adaptive Computing's Moab HPC Suite Power Leading Edge Research," press release, November 14, 2011
Data Center Knowledge
"How Enterprises Can Maximize the Cloud," by Michael Jackson, October 6, 2011
Cloud IT Pro
"Adaptive Computing Optimizes the Cloud," by Jason Meyers, August 10, 2011
"Adaptive Computing Spins Up Moab 6.1 Control Freak," by Timothy Prickett Morgan, August 8, 2011
NewsFactor
"SUSE Linux Agreement with Microsoft Extended Four Years," by Mark Long, July 26, 2011
eWEEK Europe
"Microsoft Renews SUSE Linux Deal," by Darryl Taft, July 26, 2011
InsideHPC
"Robert Clyde Joins Adaptive Computing as New CEO," By Staff, July 19, 2011
Salt Lake Tribune
"Adaptive Computing of Provo gets new CEO," by Tom Harvey, July 19, 2011
HPCWire
"Adaptive Computing Ushers in New CEO, Robert Clyde," by Staff, July 19, 2011
Utah Valley Daily Herald
"Local News and Notes July 16," by Staff, July 16, 2011
ITBusinessEdge
"Putting the Cloud Cart Before the IT Management Horse, ITBusinessEdge, July 6, 2011
Adaptive Computing President Michael Jackson says that an IT organization can only really achieve cloud computing if the environment is not only truly dynamic across multiple types of virtual machines, but also predictive in the sense that there are no surprises. To that end, Jackson advocates that a real cloud computing strategy needs to begin with the management framework that will enable it.
Read the entire article online.
PC World
"Moab Gets Better Throughput, Support for GPUs," By Mikael Ricknäs, IDG News, June 21, 2011
The latest version of Adaptive Computing's Moab software, which allows users to better utilize the computing capacity in a cluster, has improved throughput and GPU handling, the company announced and demonstrated at the International Supercomputing Conference in Hamburg.
Read the entire article online.
Network World
"Products of the Week," by Network World Staff, February 28, 2011.
The new version addresses growing enterprise demand to quickly deploy infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), platform-as-a-service (PaaS) or software-as-a-service (SaaS) from a centralized and intelligent data center infrastructure. Moab Adaptive Computing Suite 6.0 now delivers increased agility and automation to decrease the time to value for new cloud services, reduce IT cost and complexity and optimize overall cloud resource utilization.
Read the entire article online.
Data Center Journal
"Trend Me This: IT's About High Performance," By Jeffrey Clark, February 16, 2011.
"Energy efficiency, density, and utilization are all important attributes of an efficient data center, but they do not by themselves guarantee that an IT organization is delivering what it needs to in order to support the business," said Peter ffoulkes, vice president of marketing for Adaptive Computing, cogently summarizing the situation.
Read the entire article online.
HPCwire
"GPGPUs, China Look to Build on Supercomputing Successes of 2010," by Michael Feldman, January 4, 2011.
Includes brief coverage of the SC10 Analyst Crossfire session (see video link with insideHPC entry below), where Adaptive Computing's Peter ffoulkes (director of marketing) participated as a panelist with Addison Snell of Intersect360 Research (moderator), Michael Wolfe of The Portland Group, Jay Boisseau of Texas Advanced Computing Center, and Thomas Sterling of Louisiana State University.
Read the entire article online.
Linux Magazine
"HPC 2010: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly," by Douglas Eadline, January 3, 2011.
Includes brief coverage of the SC10 Analyst Crossfire session (see video link with insideHPC entry below), where Adaptive Computing's Peter ffoulkes (director of marketing) participated as a panelist with Addison Snell of Intersect360 Research (moderator), Michael Wolfe of The Portland Group, Jay Boisseau of Texas Advanced Computing Center, and Thomas Sterling of Louisiana State University.
insideHPC
"Video: SC10 Analyst Crossfire Program Is Must-See TV," December 6, 2010.
"In this wrap-up video from SC10, Addison Snell from Intersect360 Research moderates a panel discussion on the latest developments in HPC with two industry experts and two supercomputing center directors. Recorded November 19, 2010, at SC10 in New Orleans."
HPCwire
"HPC Movers and Shakers: Michael Jackson, Adaptive Computing," by Caroline Connor, November 22, 2010.
"What defines success? When I first met Michael A. Jackson last year at a partner luncheon, I was immediately struck by his genuine friendliness, intelligence, and warm personality. After hearing about the recent funding success he and his brother David achieved with Adaptive Computing and Moab, I thought it would make for an interesting interview. What resonated with me following our discussion is that it is his belief in core values and in making contributions to the community that he defines as true success."
Read the entire article online.
infoTECH
"KTH Sweden Selects Adaptive Computing's Solution," by Raja Singh Chaudhary, November 19, 2010.
Adaptive Computing has announced that "the Royal Institute for Technology or 'KTH' from Sweden has selected the company's Moab Cluster Suite for managing its Center for High Performance Computing or 'PDC.' The company develops Moab unified intelligent automation technology that will help PDC in managing the additional complexity of an expanded HPC network, and will also support it in future initiatives such as integrating and managing disparate server and OS architectures. The intelligence solutions offered by Adaptive Computing are powered by Moab, and allow the customers to consolidate and virtualize their resources, allocate and manage applications, optimize service levels and reduce operational costs."
Read the entire article online.
The Register
"Adaptive Computing Speaks Better GPU with Moab 6," by Timothy Prickett Morgan, November 17, 2010.
"Supercomputer clusters are getting larger every year, and now they are getting math help from adjunct devices such as GPU co-processors. Cluster provisioning and management tools therefore have to scale from tens of thousands of cores to hundreds of thousands—without choking on their own communication with cluster nodes. They also have to be aware of co-processors and keep them fed. Scalability and GPU support are therefore the key new features in the Moab Cluster Suite 6.0 cluster management tool and its companion Moab Viewpoint 2.0 console."
Read the entire article online.
Adaptive Computing Acquires Series A Funding of $14 Million
InsideHPC: "Video: Adaptive Computing's $14 Million Financing is Good News for HPC."
SysCon Media: "Intel Backs Cloud Computing Manager," by Maureen O'Gara.
The DataCenter Journal: "All Four Directions?" by Rakesh Dogra.
Information Management Online: "Intel's Latest Investment in the Cloud," by Staff.
San Francisco Examiner: "Intel fuels cloud computing race with investments in Adaptive Computing and Joyent," by Staff.
Times of India: "Intel Capital Invests $30m in 4 Cos," by Staff.
HPC in the Cloud: "'Intelligent' Cloud Automation Gets Substantial Push From Investors," by Nicole Hemsoth.
The Register: "Intel and VC friends kick cash to IT startups: Windfall for Adaptive Computing, Joyent," by Timothy Prickett Morgan.
DailyFinance: "Intel's Red, White and Blue Bets: Cloud Computing and Cleantech," by Ucilia Wang.
ITWorld: "Wave That Flag! Intel Invests $30 million in 4 U.S. Startups," by Staff.
CRN: "Intel Capital Invests $30 Million in U.S. Startups," by Zewde Yeraswork.
GigaOm: "Intel Pumps $30M into American Startups," by Ucilia Wang.
San Jose Mercury News: "Intel Invests $30 million in Energy, Chip Design, Cloud-computing Startups," by Frank Michael Russell.
IT Business Edge: "Intel Investing in the Cloud," by Susan Hall.
Wall Street Journal: "Intel Capital Increases Software Investment Pace With 4 Deals," by Scott Denne.
DowJones: "Adaptive Computing Turns To VCs For First Time," by Scott Denne.
The Salt Lake Tribune: "Intel invests in Utah's Adaptive Computing," by Tom Harvey.
Techrockies: "Adaptive Computing Gets $14M," by Staff.
SearchCloudComputing: "Intel Sinks $30 Million into Cloud Computing," by Carl Brooks.
SearchCloudComputing.com: "Novell Joins Crowded Cloud Platform Market," by Carl Brooks.
TechCrunch: "Intel Capital Invests $30 Million in Joyent, Nexant, Ciranovo and Adaptive Computing," by Leena Rao.
Computerworld: "Intel Invests in Cloud Management Firm," by Patrick Thibodeau.
Fortune, CNNMoney.com: "Today in Tech: News Around the Web," by JP Mangalindan.
TelecomPaper: "Intel Capital Invests USD 30 mln in Four US Companies," by Staff.
ITChannelPlanet: "Intel Pours $30 Million into Four U.S. Technology Companies," by D.H. Kass.
VentureBeat: "Intel Drops $30M in Four More Tech Companies Spanning Semiconductors, Cleantech and the Cloud," by Matthew Lynley.
Associated Press: "Intel Investing $30 Million in Software Companies," by Staff.
Silicon Valley First Call Blog (Silicon Valley Business Journal): "Intel Invests $30M in 4 Companies," by Staff.
DatacenterDynamics.com: "US Data Center News in Brief: Intel Invests in Adaptive and Joyent, . . . ," by Staff.
SILV CNN 1590 Silicon Valley News: "Intel Provides Venture Capital Funding," by Staff.
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."
Read the entire article online.
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.' "
Read the entire article online.
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]
Read the entire article online.
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. . . ."
Read the entire article online.
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."
Read the entire article online.
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."
Read the entire article online.
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."
Read the entire article online.
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?"
Read the entire article online.
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."
Read the entire article online.
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."
View article online. (Entire media mention appears in paragraphs above.)
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."
Read the entire article online.
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. . . ."
Read the entire article online.
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."
Read the entire article online.
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 . . . ."
Read the entire article online.
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)
Read the entire article online.
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.' "
Read the entire article online.
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."
Read the entire article online.
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."