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HPC Sustainability in The Cloud

How Sustainable is the Cloud? Sustainability is one of the hottest topics at the board table. Most organisations have a minimum commitment to be carbon neutral by 2050, and many have more ambitious goals. HPC has a challenging relationship with sustainability, on one hand, it uses a lot of power and space, on the other … Read more

The Myth of Green HPC

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Today, we are learning more and more about sustainability, and how this concept is one of the most important when protecting the environment. Often being broken into three core concepts: economic, environmental, and social, more sustainability conversations are being created. Whether it’s in the context of how we go about our everyday lives to what changes … Read more

Tips For Cloud Deployment 

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Streamlining Your Cloud HPC Journey  Over the last few years, I have had the privilege of being involved in several Cloud High-Performance Computer (HPC) cluster deployments. Despite the great variation in designs, which highlights the great flexibility on the Cloud, I have noticed some common roadblocks along the way.   These roadblocks can in the best … Read more

Tips for Cloud HPC Clusters

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Deployment and Management from the front line Infrastructure-as-Code  is an inherent advantage of using the cloud. Simply put, this is the ability to describe new infrastructure required for your cloud deployment in your chosen tool eg Bicep, Terraform, Pulumi, or one of the many others, which can then be read and deployed into your environment. … Read more

Diving into Efficiency

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The Rise of Warm Water Cooling in Data Centre’s Four months into my new Role at Red Oak Consulting, I have an opportunity to further research liquid cooling. While one of my favourite activities is liquid cooling of the IPA (Indian Pale Ale) kind, a Red Oak blog about beer apparently wasn’t OK! Therefore, I … Read more

Denver SC23 – AI All The Way Down?

Given some of the pre-show announcements last week you might be forgiven for thinking that SC23 is going to be all about AI! Here in the UK we had two huge announcements, the first being the award of Isambard-AI to a consortium led by Bristol University (headed by Prof. Simon MacIntosh-Smith, Director of the Isambard … Read more

Looking Forward to SC22 in Dallas

Bags are being packed, calendars are filling up and people are busy working out where their meetings are on Google Maps.  Exactly how far and how fast, they must hoof it between hotels and meeting room suites, is the looming thought!  As someone who isn’t attending in person this year, I’ve instead been thinking about … Read more

What happens to your IT practices when you spin up an HPC cluster, in an hour?

    Red Oak Consulting successfully held its latest HPC in the Cloud webinar on 8th December 2021.  Held, in partnership with Microsoft and Intel we talked about the ease of spinning up an HPC cluster, in the cloud. and the implications to your IT practices.   Pictured below are a few captions from the webinar … Read more