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[insideHPC] IBM Announces Faster HPC Services | insideHPC.com: IBM on Thursday announced its latest addition to its HPC services portfolio.  Rooted in their Deep Computing group, the new services are designed for customers who want to get supercomputers up and running faster.  The services include installation, training and porting of applications to newly installed IBM platforms. IBM will use their bench depth within Deep Computing to drum up expertise specifically tailored to individual customers.

[All Blogs (Recommended)] Cloud Computing: being aware and beware: . Before you take a shot on moving most of your daily needs to the cloud make sure that your Internet connection is as strong as Himalayas. Areas and countries where Internet speed and connection reliability is doubtful there Cloud computing can not replace the traditional PC dependency. There are some cloud services like Google gears which can help you to work on your documents offline, but that is not really the idea of perfect Cloud for me.

[Law And More] Law And More: Cloud Computing - Could this, not demand per se, be ...: In addition to deep-sixing costs, this allows for complete mobility in this broadband era since whatever is needed is in The Cloud, not inside a desktop.  Larger organizations are purchasing private versions of this to give them more control and manage the security risks to their satisfaction. 

[CNET News.com - Business Tech] Flexing a super (computing) muscle - CNET News: Turek: In a controlled and planned economy, you could try to make the argument that by setting up a protectionist kind of policy you could do that to stimulate an indigenous industry...I think that that is a pretty problematic strategy to implement...I think that one of the impacts of globalization has been that the cream rises and people are going to try to make use of the best technology they can as opposed to engaging in a very speculative endeavor of trying to embrace these other policies and practices to build an unrelated indigenous industry that's going to serve some nebulous goal under the Partisan State Commissar. That may happen, but I think the likelihood is fairly low.

[CRM Daily] CRM Daily | IBM Roars into Business Consulting: IBM built a test system for financial-services company TD Securities that lets it analyze options trading data in real time and make adjustments in microseconds. The system, run by IBM on one of its Blue Gene supercomputers, improved the performance of the trading system by a factor .

[ZDNet Asia Latest Tech News] IBM roars into business consulting : News : Business - ZDNet Asia: But experts in the area say no other company can match the capabilities of IBM's new consulting service. "They have the scale and the combination of technology and business consulting," says James Taylor, an expert in the field of enterprise decision management and chief executive of the consulting firm Decision Management Solutions.

[Rick Bookstaber] Rick Bookstaber: The Arms Race in High Frequency Trading: I guess looking at HFT as loading up on technology is one way, the other perspective is to ask why the current technology of computers is designed to be optimized for a PC basically, with a million an one processes running and no structure of the machine, all generalists. As Sherlock Holmes character claimed to specialize himself for what he needs, HFT efforts on computing are something similar, nothing as deep and revolutionary as people not in HFT think.

[HASTAC - Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory] Your Own Personal Supercomputer | HASTAC: Even if researchers were able to build a supercomputer capable of 100 billion gigaflops in the next 5 years, I highly doubt it would be capable of competing with the human brain (remember, the fastest supercomputer today is rated at just over a petaflop, 100,000 times slower). Although some studies from the lat 1980s and the 1990s have estimated the brain's computing power around 10 petaflops [1,2], they have shown total disregard for some of the unique aspects of the human brain;

[The Pervasive Datacenter] Microsoft talks virtualization and cloud | The Pervasive ...: This blog takes a deep (and often skeptical) look at trends big and small in the world of enterprise servers, data centers, and "Yotta-scale" computing. This means also taking into account the myriad of software, networks, and devices that are driving change in (or being driven by) these back-end systems.

[Dharmendra S Modha's Cognitive Computing Blog] Dharmendra S Modha's Cognitive Computing Blog: IBM Awarded DARPA ...: Second, supercomputing is now ready to undertake extremely large-scale simulations. Third, nanotechnology is evolving to the point that we may be able to represent essential computational function of synapses and neurons in hardware to rival brain’s power and space.

[Deltaflt1189's Blog] **EXPOSED! - The Mark Of The Beast!** « Deltaflt1189's Blog: Following the initial broadcast, President Bush addressed the Congress, saying, “What is at stake is more than one small country [Kuwait], it is a big idea–a new world order, where diverse nations are drawn together in common cause to achieve the universal aspirations of mankind: peace and security, freedom, and the rule of law. Such is a world worthy of our struggle, and worthy of our children’s future!”

[Jonathan Schwartz's Weblog] Jonathan Schwartz's Blog: The Network is the Computer: We learned a lot, but mainly that most enterprises today define On Demand computing as hosting - they want to give their computers, software, networking and storage to a third party, and rent them back for a fixed price. But that'd be like an electricity company collecting generators and unique power requirements, and trying to build a grid out of them.

[Charlie's Diary] Charlie's Diary: LOGIN 2009 keynote: gaming in the world of 2030: However, with the scaling problems of Moore's law in processing spaces as they currently exist, they have to be written for distributed systems of some type or another, unless they become the 'operating system' for your personal phone (comm unit) and are capable of effectively dominating that space, hiring out processing cycles or offloading to distributed systems as needed, and then down-cycling when a specific process is completed (such as re-tagging every video, email, letter, and other action in your lifelog for the last 2 or 5 years when you break up, to make her your "ex-girlfriend Sandy" or "that jerk I dumped").

[CNET News.com] Will cloud computing kill enterprise sales? | The Wisdom of Clouds ...: Assuming a multibillion dollar enterprise can truly analyze a sophisticated solution without human dialogue is pure fantasy, as witnessed by the fact that volumes of RFP responses are only the beginning of understanding real business drivers and the degree to which commercial software can address them. I have not met a single C level executive with fiduciary responibility to his or her company and shareholders that would make a commitment of this magnitude without meeting the providers, doing a deep dive to separate reality from roadmaps of future promises, and establishing a true partnership for success.

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