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Next week Univa will be at Oracle Open World demonstrating a policy-enabled, dynamically managed Oracle E-Business Suite private cloud. Why talk about what you can when you can see it?

http://www.univaud.com/hpc/products/oracle-demo.php

Special thanks to our partners Sun, Oracle and Zeus Technology

The second video from Intel. Univa again describes the value the program brings to us as a middleware vendor and our end-users and partners.

http://software.intel.com/en-us/videos/hpc-univa-ud-intel-cluster-ready/

This video was filmed in Intel Studios in Santa Clara. In this video we describe how a small company like Univa can take advantage of Intel Cluster Ready. With ICR Univa is able to spend engineering time solving numerous yet-to-be-solved software management issues in a cluster. 

http://www.clusterconnection.com/2009/03/univa-ud-intel%C2%AE-cluster-re...

Univa wins Honorable Mention at BioIT Best Practices Awards for our work with UniCloud and our partner (customer) Pathwork Dx.

UniCloud: HPC in the cloud info: http://www.univaud.com/hpc/products/unicloud.php

Customer Case Study: http://www.univaud.com/hpc/cs-data-processing-amazon-ec2.php

Univa will present at Sun HPC Consortium in Hamburg, Germany.

http://events-at-sun.com/hpc-hamburg09/agenda.php

4:45pm Sunday, June 21, 2009

Red Hat-based Linux distributions dominate HPTC environments.

The Irony of Cluster Management

It's been a while since I posted to this group. I have great reasons for the tardiness - travel to Asia, Europe and several domestic trips - but only one excuse. I simply ran out of time. Time to for me, creative time and the time to type. I was simply exhausted.

In the middle of all the work and effort to build the business (there's another series of posts right there!) I have also been watching my wife start her own business. She launched a gardening product this week at a show and naturally I had to be there. Time seemed to be my enemy for the past several weeks. 

Is Open Source Mature?

It’s interesting to me that there is a dichotomy in IT practice about the maturity and completeness of open source software. I have heard and read comments as simple as open source software is not as stable as proprietary software, and as complex as the presentation of entire models that characterize maturity. What they may be suggesting is that it’s a given that proprietary software is more polished, better qualified and therefore more stable.

Part 4:
HPC Lifecycle and Standards

I dropped this in my blog but thought perhaps it was valuable enough to cross-post.

Univa UD is inviting our technology and contribution community partners to squat in our booth at the upcoming SuperComputing show in Austin this November.

Interested parties can submit this form

Space is limited .... some restrictions apply.

I found this "Value Map" very valuable in helping to describe how to
align IT projects to corporate goals. This image was part of a story on
InfoWeek about A Better Metric for IT Efficiency

In a recent article I described how managers of HPC are seeking IT
efficiency and how this is driving new requirements for HPC systems
software products like UniCluster.

The conclusion in that piece netted out this:

Years ago I subscribed to an email list that has been routinely filling up my personal email account on a daily basis (I honestly forget the source, or what I was thinking at the time). With nothing else to do at airports waiting for delayed planes (which seems to have become a regular occurrence) I started reading some of them (Have Blackberry will read!). A couple of days ago an email came in from internetnews.com that caught my attention: “What Bad Economy? IT Spend Will Grow This Year”.

How Open Source Drives Standards:
Making HPC Clusters Simple and Affordable

Part 3:
What Role Can Open Source Play?

I believe open source can play both a leading and an enabling role. But first consider the alternative. Consider a market context where the incumbents with existing functionality, performance and reliability chose not to interoperate.

Who wins? Who loses?

How Open Source Drives Standards:
Making HPC Clusters Simple and Affordable

Part 2:
Henry Ford – can we learn from the master?

I first gave this presentation publicly at the Open Source Grid and Cluster conference in Oakland in May, 2008. My keynote was titled “How Open Source Drives Standards: Making HPC Clusters Simple and Affordable.”

How Open Source Drives Standards:
Making HPC Clusters Simple and Affordable

Greetings.

I have made a terrible mistake and I wanted to tell you about it.

I got married about 19 months ago. No, getting married wasn’t my mistake. My wife and I bought a house – a small, 2 storey, 40 year old house with a large lot, big trees and – to the discriminating eye – a lot of work that needed to be done. And no, buying that house wasn’t my mistake.