Vicki Lockhart Collectively at Red Oak Consulting we have been working on TCO models for clients for decades. As a result of our work and experience within TCO modelling we have created a highly evolved model for TCO analysis, which drills down into all of the deep dark recesses of whole life cost modelling for HPC and … Read more
Red Oak Consulting is delighted to announce we will be holding another HPC in the Cloud customer seminar on the 17th October. Following recent feedback we have centred this seminar on the hot topics of Data Storage and People when looking at HPC in the Cloud technology. This seminar will be held at the De … Read more
Like many other HPC professionals I’m following the hype cycle[1] around Machine Learning/Deep Learning with interest. I subscribe to the view that we’re probably approaching the ‘peak of inflated expectations’ but not quite yet starting the descent into the ‘trough of disillusionment.’ Read more…
When we’re approached by a customer to perform or support a Cloud Proof of Concept (PoC), regardless of its conceptual state, we have a number of key steps and initial questions in mind. The most obvious is to state the exact problem which needs to be solved. Since any proof of concept is almost always … Read more
Red Oak Consulting has recently returned from a successful trip to Seattle. Whilst out in Seattle, Owen Thomas, Senior Partner gave a presentation on finances associated with HPC and Cloud computing. We had a great time, including our company mascot Teddy who you can see enjoying the skyline of Seattle below! The audience was welcoming … Read more
As the calendar rolls around to late June we see the ISC conference, held in Frankfurt (June 24th-28th), heave into view. With some of the pre-show announcements already starting to roll out, what do we think some of the main talking points will be next week? There’s already been some press around the Summit machine … Read more
The business of buying, selling and managing high-performance computing resources is for the most part an amicable one. Aside from the periodic low-grade spat between Mellanox and Intel over the benchmarking of their respective interconnects, we see little evidence of vendors bad-mouthing each other. On the customer front, when a relationship with a vendor breaks … Read more
CHALLENGE. DEBATE. LEARN. QUESTION This was the theme for our latest customer seminar, all centred on HPC technology in the Cloud. I am delighted to say this seminar was a great success, enjoyed by all. We had a great diverse set of speakers including; AstraZeneca, Met Office, Durham University, Microsoft Azure, Alces Flight and of … Read more
The last couple of years have seen cloud computing gradually build some legitimacy within the HPC world, but still the industry lies far behind enterprise IT in its willingness to outsource computational power. The most often touted reason for this is cost – but such a simple description hides a series of more interesting causes … Read more
It’s easy to be distracted by news from the US, China, and now the EU on the state of various exascale projects, but behind the vinyl-wrapped cabinets and well-groomed sales execs are an army of Excel-wielding PMO and accountancy staff trying desperately to keep projects on-time and on-budget. Applying the same level of scrutiny once … Read more
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