By Stephanie Kanowitz
Mar 08, 2021
Pittsburgh announced today a $4 million pilot partnership with Google Cloud to migrate its legacy IT infrastructure to the cloud.
The migration work is expected to take about a year of the four-year agreement, said Heidi Norman, acting director of the city’s Department of Innovation and Performance. The move will happen in three phases. The first will involve moving IT tools and applications that the department uses to monitor and manage the infrastructure. After that will be compute and storage capacity, followed by lifting and shifting other on-premises applications to the cloud. The migration will help the Department of Innovation and Performance support the city s 19 departments with creating and scaling citizen-facing services for mobility, transportation, infrastructure, public safety and more.
By David Egts
Mar 09, 2021
From COVID-19 to national security challenges and space exploration, high-performance computing (HPC) is being leveraged to solve some of our nation’s most pressing issues. In combination with modern application development, HPC is advancing the science and understanding needed to address these challenges.
In a traditional HPC environment, computational scientists set up clusters and run workloads. Quite often, these workloads must be rebuilt for each machine. This makes sharing and reuse of applications difficult. Running cloud-based applications alongside HPC jobs is a better option, but it makes little sense to expend precious HPC compute cycles on jobs that aren’t computationally intensive.