[$] High-performance computing with Ubuntu

Jason Nucciarone and Felipe Reyes gave back-to-back talks
about high-performance computing (HPC) using Ubuntu at
SCALE this
year. Nucciarone talked about ongoing work packaging

Open OnDemand — a web-based HPC cluster interface —
to make high-performance-computing clusters
more user friendly. Reyes presented on using
OpenStack — a cloud-computing platform
— to pass the performance benefits of one's hardware through
to virtual machines (VMs) running on a cluster.