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Cloud Computing World Series Shortlisted Abiquo for 2 Awards
The Cloud Computing World Series has shortlisted Abiquo for two (2) awards including Best Enterprise Solution and Best Virtualization Product or Service. This is a real achievement since there was more competition in each award category than ever before.
Final award winners will be officially announced at the 2010 Cloud Computing World Forum event to be held on June 29th-July 1st at the Olympia Conference Center in London. For more information on the awards, visit http://cloudwf.com/Awards/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=138&Itemid=101
Other noteable awards and recognition which Abiquo has received include: RedHerring 100 award in Europe, Network World’s Top 10 Cloud Computing Vendors to Watch, and AlwaysOn OnDemand Top 100 Winner. For a complete list of awards, visit www.abiquo.com/news-and-events/awards.php
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Intensive computing with the abiquo platform
A few months ago, Santiago (one of our java architects at abiquo) developed in one morning a simple application to render scenes on a grid, using the yafray command line application as backend.
Without our platform, this image is rendered in 30 minutes (approximately). The same rendering task, using seven desktop computers and our platform, is reduced to 3 minutes, i.e. ten times faster.
In the application you can decide how to split your task; In this case, the yafray initialization state slows the process down a little. For this reason, if you decide to divide the image into more squares the execution will take longer. On the other hand, by using little squares, you can send more work to the best computer. However, this application is only a demostration :).
In order to use the intelligent agents layer, the platform learns about the service and the nodes, and the developer can apply its knowledge to split the work in dynamic squares, to send bigger squares to the best computers.
You can check here a video demostration.
Maybe it’s time to remind the data mining example using an application we gridified on the research group at the university few years ago. Now it’s working with the abiquo platform. The video here :)
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