Red Hat Research Quarterly
Power surge: the push for sustainability in high-performance computing and AI workloads
An interview with John Goodhue, the director of the Massachusetts Green
High-Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC)
Volume 6, Issue 2 • ISSN 2691-5278
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For those active in the early years of cloud computing, the challenges of open AI systems may feel strangely familiar. Do large-scale research collaborations have a lesson for today’s AI developers and engineers? We think so. With the proliferation of cloud computing in the early 2000s, IT organizations faced a new challenge: how to manage […]
Thorsten Schwesig
Christopher Tate
Updates to NERC infrastructure enable fine-grained resource permissions for observability data. Observability data provides essential insights for optimizing performance, troubleshooting, and using resources sustainably. For users of the New England Research Cloud (NERC), part of the Mass Open Cloud (MOC) Alliance, this data also provides critical information for innovative research projects. Until recently, access to […]
Red Hat Research collaborates with universities and government agencies to produce peer-reviewed publications that bring open source contributions along with them. These research artifacts illustrate the value that open industry-academia collaborations hold not just for participants, but for technological advancement across the field of computer engineering. This is a sampling of recent papers and conference […]
Parul Singh
Han Dong
Shaun Strohmer
John Goodhue has perspective. He was there at the birth of the internet and the development of the BBN Butterfly supercomputer, and now he’s a leader in one of the toughest challenges of the current age of technology—sustainable computing. Comparisons abound: one report says carbon emissions from cloud computing equal or exceed emissions from all […]
Han Dong
Parul Singh
A proposed Kubernetes scheduler plugin aims to introduce energy efficiency as a factor in dynamic scheduling while still meeting performance requirements. Businesses in many sectors are setting aggressive sustainability goals, from transitioning to renewable energy sources to reducing existing consumption. Nowhere is the pressure to meet these goals more urgent than in the technology sector, […]
Enhancements to the pioneering platform for open source education have made it more reliable, easier to use, and much more affordable for new users. What would it mean to open source education? For starters, we’d need a way for educators to create and publish their own high-quality open source materials—lectures, presentations, textbooks, and lab manuals—so […]
Ensuring security in open source software starts before a line of code is written. What role should communities and developers play? Open source projects are used in commercial products by many companies, from Microsoft and Google to Red Hat. The developers behind these projects and their user accounts are the first element in the supply […]
Orran Krieger
Heidi Dempsey
Our long-standing research partnership is now a strategic opportunity to advance open source AI, and everyone is invited. If you’ve followed Red Hat Research over the years, chances are you’ve heard of the Mass Open Cloud Alliance (MOC-A). The MOC is a production cloud service with 150 petabytes of storage, supporting containers through Red Hat […]