Hello from Portland...

I'm here in lovely Portland, Oregon for the Supercomputing Conference (SC|09).

Tutorials on topics like CUDA, Cloud Computing, parallel programming, and high performance filesystems were conducted yesterday and continue into today. Tonight the exhibit floor opens with exciting new things like Fermi from NVIDIA, SGI's new systems, a variety of "green" solutions, NetApp's 10GbE offering, and more.

Former Vice-President (and "Inventor of the Internet" ;-) ) Al Gore is speaking on Thursday morning about “Computing for a Changing World,” and will present initiatives related to Sustainability, Bio-Computing and the 3D Internet.

It should be a great conference. I look forward to sharing interesting tidbits I learn right here!

P.S. Thanks to my friend and former colleague, Claude Baudoin, for including a mention of this little blog in his company's newsletter: The KIT -- Knowledge and Information Technology. Go ahead, subscribe to it!

The Economist is hosting a live debate on Cloud Computing

The topic is: This house believes that the Cloud can't be entirely trusted.

Tune in to hear what Stephen Elop, President, Microsoft Business Division and Marc Benioff, Chairman & CEO, salesforce.com have to say about this topic.

http://www.economist.com/debate/days/view/409

Which Industries are most interested in Cloud Computing (according to Gartner)?

The top 3 are:

1. Financial Services
2. Manufacturing
3. Business and Management Services

To see the rest of the top 20, please click here.

Videos from Google Cloud Conference

Google held an event for CIOs called Atmosphere on October 22nd.  Below are links to some notable presentations given at the event.

Nicholas Carr: Era of the Cloud
Dr. Werner Vogels (CTO Amazon.com): Cloud Capability
Nelson Mattos and Matthew Glotzbach, Google: Making Waves, Google Cloud Innovation

How does Amazon do what it does?

See this informative paper on what's going on under the hood at Amazon.