HPCcloud is a discussion group for presenting experiences and scenarios by individuals, organizations and projects to illustrate how Cloud computing can enhance the different types of Distributed Computing Infrastructures (DCI) and High Performance Computing (HPC) environments in science and engineering. The group covers the following aspects about innovative potential, benefits and challenges of new Cloud technologies and services in scientific and technical computing research and business:

- Cultural, security, political and legal barriers to implementing Cloud provisioning models in Distributed and High Performance Computing infrastructures
- Architectures for integration of Cloud technologies and services with Distributed and High Performance Computing environments
- Standardization of interactions between Distributed and High Performance Computing platforms and Cloud infrastructures
- Limitations of existing Cloud services and technologies for the capability and capacity computing demands of the Distributed and High Performance Computing communities in the execution of both tightly-coupled HPC and loosely-coupled HTC applications
- HPC Clouds offering platforms with HPC devices and configurations, and Science Clouds offering specific services for the scientific and technical computing community
- Impact of virtualization on the performance of memory, CPU and I/O intensive, and latency sensitive applications, and virtualization support for specialized communication transports
- Service and infrastructure scalability and elasticity management for the efficient execution of virtualized Distributed and High Performance Computing platforms
- Challenges of porting HPC applications to the Cloud and new computing paradigms for HPC on Cloud

The group was founded by OpenNebula.org. See HPCcloud.org for more details. « less