THURSDAY, JUNE 24, 2010

BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 

Cycle Computing to Moderate End-User Panel on Cloud Virtualization for Life Sciences and Finance

WHAT: Jason Stowe, CEO of Cycle Computing, will be moderating a panel of end-users discussing real-world applications of cloud virtualization at the 1st USENIX Cloud Virtualization Summit in Boston, Mass.

WHY: The panel, including Aaron Kitzmiller of Life Technologies, Vassilios Pantazopoulos of Pfizer, Lance Berc of VMWare and Dave Cohen of EMC will discuss use cases, requirements, agility benefits and security considerations of cloud services, focusing on deployments in life sciences and finance. The panelists will discuss real-world implementations, exploring how life sciences and financial services companies positions on using cloud computing. The discussion will dissect the challenges, effectiveness and regulatory compliance issues confronting these types of companies as they move to the cloud, as well as best practices to successfully leverage the advantages cloud computing delivers to both industries. Cloud computing changes how many organizations operate, but is it often difficult to separate the real, practical ways that the cloud is helping with collaboration, software as a service, technical computing and storage.

WHEN: “End-User Panel: Cloud Virtualization for Real Applications Today”
Thursday, June 24, 2010
10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. ET
1st USENIX Cloud Virtualization Summit

WHERE:
Sheraton Boston Hotel, Boston, Mass.

CONTACT:
To schedule a briefing with Jason Stowe at the event, contact Ashleigh Egan at 212.255.0080, ext. 12, or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

MONDAY, APRIL 26, 2010

NEW YORK, NEW YORK

Cycle Computing Discusses Technology Solutions for Pre-Trade Analytics and Modeling at A-Team Insight Exchange Conference 

WHAT: Jason Stowe, CEO of Cycle Computing, will be participating in a panel discussion about the technologies impacting electronic trading at the A-Team Insight Exchange Ultra High Performance Technologies for the Financial Markets Conference. 

Stowe will participate in the panel, entitled “Powering Pre-Trade Analytics and Modeling,” along with participants from Accenture, RNA Networks, Hanweck Associates and Numerix.  

WHY: The electronic trading world is growing and now focusing on new asset classes, such as options and fixed income. Due to this growth, new complexities have emerged in terms of pre-trade pricing and the calculation of analytics at the front-end of the trade life cycle. Powerful compute resources will be required to make highly complex calculations in orders-of-magnitude reduced times. 

The panelists will discuss the following topics: 

• What are the markets where speed of analytics is required most? 
• How complex will calculations get? 
• What technology solutions have merit (HPC, grid computing, hardware acceleration, cloud computing)? 
• What are the best choices for individual analytics requirements?  

MONDAY, APRIL 19, 2010 - THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 2010

BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 

Pre-Conference Workshop: Cloud Computing  
Monday, April 19, 2010
8:00 am - 3:30 pm 

Cycle Computing is leading the efforts for many life science organizations in using the cloud, helping research labs and companies leverage internal and external clouds for collaboration, calculations, and storage. We'll cover real-world use cases across drug discovery & design, collaboration, next generation sequencing, proteomics, software as a service, and bioinformatics, to explore how life sciences are using cloud computing, its challenges and effectiveness, how money can be saved by an organization, and regulatory compliance. Join thought leaders in this day long workshop to examine how cloud computing can be used effectively as an external IT service and an internal computing model. 

CycleCloud: Boosting Productivity with HPC as a Service on the Cloud  
Thursday, April 22, 2010
12:15 pm  
Presented By: Jason Stowe, CEO  

Now/Next generation Sequencers, spectrometers, and other medical instruments give scientists access to larger amounts of data at cheaper costs.  The cloud offers easy, inexpensive access to computing for sequence alignment, SNP detection, proteomics, and other scientific pipelines. For researchers that rely on computation to analyze these data sets, cloud computing can change the way science gets done by making it faster and more cost effective.

But successfully deploying applications to use the cloud efficiently involves a number of technical challenges. These include making applications scale, securing the clusters, and focusing on ease of use. CycleCloud makes this easy by pre-engineering clusters/pipelines to work optimally and securely on the Cloud.

With a focus on improving researcher productivity, CycleCloud creates fully-managed HPC clusters as a service with key applications pre-installed, the ability to quickly develop new analysis workflows, shared filesystems, and auto-scaling to size clusters to the multi-user workloads you place on them. This session will focus on:

• Bandwidth/data considerations for using the Cloud
• Productivity, ease of use, and security requirements
• Example walkthroughs of pre-engineered pipelines for drug discovery with Schrodinger, proteomics, and genome analysis use cases 

MONDAY, MARCH 15, 2010 - FRIDAY, MARCH 19, 2010

SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA 

SUNDAY, MARCH 7, 2010 - THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 2010

NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE  

At Purdue, the demand for computational power needed for research rapidly outpaced the budget for new servers and the space to run them. At the same time, most machines across campus were used less than half of the time. The challenge was to harness these unused computational cycles for multiple colleges while building a framework that maintained scalability and ease of use. Purdue collaborated with Cycle Computing to build DiaGrid, a grid of idle campus computers/servers to provide computational capacity to researchers. DiaGrid’s motto became “No Cycle Left Behind.” By partnering with other campuses across Indiana, Purdue increased its total capacity to more than 177 teraflops, which is equal to a $3 million supercomputer requiring several thousand square feet of data center space. Today, with 28,000 processors, DiaGrid offers two million computing hours per month. Also, the research clusters within DiaGrid average about one percent to two percent at idle, providing one of the highest utilization levels ever. This session will discuss the journey that brought Purdue and Cycle Computing together to form DiaGrid.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 2010

BATAVIA, ILLINOIS

Cycle Computing will be participating at the Open Science Grid Consortium's Industry Session and Electronic Discussions taking place at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois. 

THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 2010

HOUSTON, TEXAS

WHAT: Jason Stowe, CEO of Cycle Computing, and David Powers, senior systems engineer in research and development IT at Eli Lilly and Company, will be speaking about Eli Lilly’s use of cloud computing for HPC at the Oil & Gas HPC Workshop at Rice University in Houston, Texas.  


WHY: Stowe and Powers will discuss the business drivers inside and outside Eli Lilly that lead the company to utilize cloud computing as an option for HPC. The presentation will include details of how to migrate various applications, including those with pipeline stages and dependencies for execution. Specifically, Stowe and Powers will outline the migration of a proteomics workflow, along with benchmark data on various instances, bandwidth and I/O speeds.

WHEN: “Large, Dynamic, and Pay as you Go: HPC on the Cloud” 

Thursday, March 4, 2010

1:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. CST

WHERE: Oil & Gas HPC Workshop

Duncan Hall, Rice University, Houston, Texas           

CONTACT: To schedule a briefing with Jason Stowe at the event, contact Ashleigh Egan at 212.255.0080, ext. 12, or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it