An additional second is being added at midnight UTC on December 31, 2016. This post summarizes how cloud service providers handle the leap second.

Rick Friedman recaps the DellEMC “Expand your realm of possibility with Big Data and HPC” seminar held in Boston earlier this month.

Summary of the Cloud HPC Birds of a Feather session at LISA 16. A group of 15 people joined to discuss the state of their cloud HPC efforts.

Michael Requa recaps the IEEE Big Data Conference’s Geospatial Workshop. Cycle Computing and NASA presented a recent cloud workflow.

Evan Burness shares his observations from the Dell HPC Community event held before Supercomputing ’16 in Salt Lake City, Utah.

CycleCloud 6 adds a button to the Clusters page to upgrade clusters that were started with an older version of CycleCloud.

CycleCloud 6 makes it safer and easier for users to create custom health checks for the clusters. The HealthCheck system now requires an explicit return code (254) to terminate an instance.

CycleCloud 6 adds a new feature to help manage SSL certificates for secure communication to the server.

Dell EMC partners with Cycle Computing to deliver a complete hybrid cloud solution for Big Compute workloads in a way that no one else can today.

CycleCloud 6 adds a new GUI window to make selecting Cluster-Init and Custom Chef configurations easier.