Silicon Graphics Offers On-demand Cloud Storage

SGI's Cyclone cloud is a single tenancy rental and not virtualized. If you are looking to buy server and storage capacity on demand to run preloaded applications, you only pay for what you use. According to The Register SGI has lined up 16 different applications that are popularly used in five different HPC domains that lend themselves to the utility computing approach and has them preloaded onto Cyclone.

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"The Cyclone cloud is currently hosted in two data centers owned by SGI - one in Fremont, California, where SGI is headquartered, and another in a data center in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, where SGI has historically done development and manufacturing before its acquisition by Rackable Systems. SGI did not divulge the processing capacity it has dedicated to the HPC cloud, beyond saying that it currently has thousands of processor cores and that it can be scaled as customer demands dictate.

"Customers with relative small data sets can upload information to the cloud over a VPN link, or they can ship the data to SGI on disk drives. SGI is using its own InfiniteStorage arrays as well as arrays from LSI and DataDirect as the back-end storage for the Cyclone HPC cloud."

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