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25 Aug 2008
#20479
Podcast: Towards Cloud Computing with Sun Grid Engine 6.2
Able to Scale to 63,000 Cores Under a Single Master

"Towards Cloud Computing with Sun Grid Engine 6.2" is a podcast in which Sun Product Line Manager Miha Ahronovitz interviews Sun Grid Architect Daniel Templeton. The result is a clarification of the scope and meaning of cloud computing and a demonstration of how easy it is to get started with Sun Grid Engine 6.2.
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25 Aug 2008
#20480
TACC Ranger Tackles Facial Recognition
Scaling to 32,768 Cores...So Far

Aaron Dubrow reports on the work of Rob Farber and Harold Trease, both with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), using Ranger at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) to demonstrate the ability to create searchable databases based on image recognition with massive amounts of data rather than text tagging.
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