[$] High-performance computing with Ubuntu

Jason Nucciarone and Felipe Reyes gave back-to-back talksabout high-performance computing (HPC) using Ubuntu atSCALE thisyear. Nucciarone talked about ongoing work packagingOpen OnDemand - a web-based HPC cluster interface -to make high-performance-computing clustersmore user friendly. Reyes presented on usingOpenStack - a cloud-computing platform- to pass the performance benefits of one's hardware throughto virtual machines (VMs) running on a cluster.