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====== About ======
HPCcloud is a discussion group for **presenting experiences and scenarios by individuals, organizations and projects to illustrate how Cloud computing can enhance the different types of distributed and high performance computing infrastructures in science and engineering**. The group covers the following aspects about innovative potential, benefits and challenges of new Cloud technologies and services in High Performance Computing (HPC) and Grid Computing research and business:

  * Cultural, security, political and legal **barriers to implementing Cloud** provisioning models in HPC and Grid environments
  * **Architectures for integration** of Cloud technologies and services with HPC and Grid infrastructures
  * **Standardization** of interactions between HPC and Grid platforms and Cloud infrastructures
  * **Limitations of existing Cloud** services and technologies for the capability and capacity computing demands of the HPC and Grid communities in the execution of both tightly-coupled HPC and loosely-coupled HTC applications
  * **HPC Clouds** offering platforms with HPC devices and configurations, and **Scientific Clouds** offering specific services for the scientific and technical computing community
  * **Impact of virtualization** on the performance of memory, CPU and I/O intensive, and latency sensitive applications, and virtualization support for specialized communication transports
  * Service and infrastructure **scalability and elasticity management** for the efficient execution of virtualized HPC and Grid platforms
  * Challenges of **porting HPC applications** to the Cloud and **new computing paradigms** for HPC on Cloud

====== Discussion ======

  * [[http://groups.google.com/group/HPCcloud|Join HPCcloud Google group here]]
  * [[http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2070857|Join HPCcloud Linkedin group here]]