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Cost Effective High Performance Computing On Public Clouds

David Hinz, Global Director, Cloud and Data Center Operations, HGST, a Western Digital company

In less than 12 months, HGST successfully integrated AWS EC2 architecture with on-premise infrastructure to accelerate its proprietary Molecular Dynamics Simulation program, which is used to identify the ideal materials and lubricants needed to develop next-generation hard disk drives. Additionally, HGST has deployed a Big Data Platform/Hadoop on AWS for performing analytics on all the manufacturing data gathered on an HDD/SSD for helping to improve yield. HGST will share best practices the company has developed to shape compute cycles to exactly match workloads across this hybrid cloud. Paths forward for new application deployment using public cloud computing will also be highlighted.