DECEMBER 14, 2009

Cloud will extend data analysis. "The continued explosion in data volumes and the vast increase in compute power for data analysis will shape the data center as we enter 2010," Jason Stowe, CEO of Cycle Computing, tells DBTA. "As a result of these demands, IT will continue to look to cloud computing to manage and execute computations quickly and easily. In the cloud, using one processor for 1,000 hours costs the same as running 1,000 processors for one hour-therefore utilizing this type of technology speeds the time to result for calculations."

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DECEMBER 14, 2009

Cloud computing promises a lot: access to large-scale virtualized computing and storage, 24/7 availability and costs associated solely with the resources used.

The cloud is recognized to have started in 2006 with Amazon Web Service's (AWS) introduction of the Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). Incredibly innovative, this service, when combined with the Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), enabled developers to start virtual machine images and consume storage as a service, where billing was done on per-hour and per-gigabyte rates.

These services were the start of what is now recognized as Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS). Currently, managed hosting companies, including GoGrid and Rackspace, are integrating IaaS capabilities to provision external resources dynamically. It's expected that more providers will follow Amazon's lead.

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DECEMBER 14, 2009

"Spot Instances and the Condor scheduler will enable a 'no compute cycle left behind' policy for running scientific and financial calculations on Amazon EC2," said Jason Stowe, CEO of Cycle Computing, in a statement. "Our CycleCloud service provides secure, elastic compute clusters on Amazon EC2, helping our customers, including Eli Lilly, Varian Inc. and Pfizer, run molecular modeling, next-generation sequencing and risk-analysis calculations. With Spot Instances, CycleCloud can execute calculations when the price is right, resulting in real cost management for our clients."

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DECEMBER 9, 2009

Even though it might seem like a misnomer, there are some actual benefits to a private cloud beyond simply providing a test bed for eventual third-party cloud services. In fact, says Cycle Computing's Jason Stowe, the chief benefit is that it allows you to leverage that other major investment of the past five years or so: virtualization.  If done right, he argues, a private cloud can help you take virtual infrastructure beyond simple consolidation and into areas like peak load management, application efficiency and lower-cost backup and redundancy. In short, by shifting application workloads to dynamically available resources, you no longer have to maintain overly large, disparate infrastructures to ensure service is available where it's needed.

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DECEMBER 8, 2009

THE DATA CENTER JOURNAL

Traditional internal data centers are grappling with record-high energy prices, fueling the demand for efficiency within an organization’s infrastructure.  According to statistics from the Uptime Institute, a 451 Group company, the average data center is 10 percent utilized, and therefore 90 percent idle.  Additionally, only about 3 percent of a data center’s electricity consumption is spent crunching data.  The remainder is spent on idleness, redundancy and other energy overhead. 

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NOVEMBER 30, 2009

BIO-IT WORLD

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NOVEMBER 23, 2009

INFOWORLD

Purdue University www.purdue.edu
Multi-Campus Supercomputing Initiative
Project lead: John P. Campbell, Associate Vice President of IT
Project description: Purdue built DiaGrid to pool unused compute cycles across several campuses using the open source Condor distributed computing system developed by the University of Wisconsin and Cycle Computing CycleServer compute management functionality, pushing the total capacity of its supercomputing system to 177 teraflops.
Industry: Education

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NOVEMBER 20, 2009

BIO-IT WORLD

Despite the enormous appeal of cloud computing, making practical use of resources such as Amazon’s EC2 is not straightforward. One key issue is scheduling. Jason Stowe, the founder and CEO of Cycle Computing, says that his firm’s service, the CycleCloud, attempts to solve a very straightforward problem: “Amazon allows you to provision 1000 servers. Now what?... How do you make it so the submission you just did 5 minutes ago starts running sooner than the submission yesterday, because its higher priority?”

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NOVEMBER 19, 2009

COMPUTER WORLD

Amazon.com's Electric Cloud Computing service is helping to boost the visibility of supercomputer centers to business users.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2009

APACHE

Cycle Computing, providing proven, secure and flexible high performance computing (HPC) and open source solutions in the cloud, today announced that the increasing enterprise demand for HPC and cloud computing is fueling its rapid expansion across industries

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NOVEMBER 17, 2009

INSIDE HPC

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NOVEMBER 13, 2009

MARKETWIRE

Cycle Computing and Purdue University to Power Dynamic Optimized Condor Pool at SuperComputing 2009 
Event Floor to Showcase Smaller Version of DiaGrid, the Largest Research- and Education-Focused Condor Pool in the World

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NOVEMBER 13, 2009

SMARTER TECHNOLOGY

Varian was on a tight deadline to simulate a design for a mass spectrometer. Because of the time crunch, it turned to Cycle Computing, a Wethersfield, Conn., company that specializes in high-performance computing and open-source solutions in the field of cloud computing. Cycle provisioned a fully secured cluster on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, also known as Amazon EC2. 

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NOVEMBER 13, 2009

CLOUD COMPUTING JOURNAL

Cycle Computing is supporting Purdue University in harnessing idle compute power to create a dynamic Condor pool at the upcoming SuperComputing 2009 conference, Nov. 14-20, in Portland, Ore. The on-site project will be a demonstration of high-performance computing (HPC) and open source solutions in the cloud.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2009

BIO-IT WORLD

Two years ago, Bio•IT World first reported on a little-known topic of “cloud computing,” when former BioTeam consultant Mike Cariaso recounted his early experiments with Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). It turned out his colleagues were also dabbling with the cloud, and they soon realized that this was more than just a cute toy for computer geeks.

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