To provide a test-bed for the applicability of cloud computing to scientific research, the Argonne National Laboratory within the U.S. Department of Energy deployed a high-performance cloud based on IBM System x iDataPlex compute nodes with Mellanox InfiniBand interconnects. This video provides an overview of the project. It runs about about 4 minutes.
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Rich Miller is the founder and editor-in-chief of Data Center Knowledge, and has been reporting on the data center sector since 2000. He has tracked the growing impact of high-density computing on the power and cooling of data centers, and the resulting push for improved energy efficiency in these facilities.
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[3] Data Center Videos: http://www.youtube.com/user/DataCenterVideos
[4] Rich Miller: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/author/richm/
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