Christian Tanasescu, Vice President Software Engineering, SGI, Germany

Organizations that rely on HPC resources are increasingly investigating cloud computing as a solution that offers additional computing capacity and flexibility in deploying IT resources. SGI Cyclone(tm) specifically addresses the growing science and engineering markets that rely on high-end computational hardware, software and networking equipment to achieve rapid results.

This talk will provide an overview of SGI HPC Cloud services, the challenges and benefits of running 3rd party ISV's and open source HPC applications in the Cloud, several use case studies and thoughts on where the industry is heading to.