Cloud Computing

interview with Howard Rubin

Parallelism and performance go hand-in-hand. But achieving maximum performance can be a balancing act, as Intel senior engineer James Reinders explains to Dr. Dobb's editor in chief Jonathan Erickson.

UC Berkeley EECS view of cloud computing

Cloud computing -- defined by the ACM Computer Communication Review as a large pool of easily usable and accessible virtualized resources that can be dynamically reconfigured to adjust to a variable load and operated on a pay-per-use model -- has been generating considerable attention throughout the high-performance computing community, in both the commercial and academic sectors. This new model is seen as a possible way for researchers to move from processing and managing their own data sets locally, to relying on large, off-site, commercially-managed data clusters.

developerWorks Cloud Computing Resource Center.

serve very large indexes as index shards on many servers

The Vocabulary of Cloud Computing

Vertebra is Engine Yard's "platform for developing and managing secure cloud applications", and was announced in June 2008. Now, it has finally been released-under the LGPL3.

automated, outsourced data center management for Java and Grails applications.