OCF in the News

2013

The big three for big data

It’s difficult to ignore the hype around Big Data. But does it actually offer any ROI?

9th May, The Manufacturer

Durham cluster allows researchers to reach for the stars

A high-performance server cluster is enabling researchers at the Institute for Computational Cosmology (ICC), based at Durham University and throughout the wider UK astrophysics community, to better understand the universe by allowing them to model phenomena ranging from solar flares to the formation of galaxies.

 9th May, insideHPC

Durham University upgrades supercomputer for cosmology research

A high performance server cluster is enabling researchers at Durham University to better understand the universe, by allowing them to model phenomena ranging from solar flares to the formation of galaxies.

8th May, Tech World

Cluster allows researchers to reach for the stars

8th May, Scientific Computing World

UK university overcomes skills gap with HPC contract

UK-based high performance computing (HPC) integrator OCF has been chosen by the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) to provide cluster management support services for its HPC system.

30th April, Data Center Dynamics

OCF to Provide HPC Support for University of Central Lancashire

PC, data management, data storage and data analytics provider, OCF has been chosen by the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) to provide cluster management support services for its HPC system.

24th April, insideHPC

OCF Providing Cluster Management Support to UCLan

PC, data management, data storage and data analytics provider, OCF has been chosen by the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) to provide cluster management support services for its High Performance Computer (HPC) system.

22nd April, HPC Wire

Big data: Big problem, big opportunity or big hype?

Data lies at the heart of many business issues; accuracy, duplication, structure, storage and accessibility are allheadaches, and since data has been stored, whether electronically or physically, it is there that informationmanagement grew into the information technology of today. So what is big data?

27th March, Microscope

OCF Helps Businesses Extract Value from Data With New Analytics Unit

OCF has launched a new analytics business unit to help UK businesses extract value from data.

25th March, HPC Wire 

Warning to Cloud Adopters: Check the fine print

Central to the attraction of cloud computing is the "pay for only what you use" claim made by almost all service providers. OCF's HPC on-Demand business development manager Jerry Dixon discusses cloud pricing.

25th February, HPC in the Cloud

Unclear pricing could hinder cloud adoption

OCF's HPC on-Demand business development manager Jerry Dixon discusses cloud pricing.

21st January, SC Online News

Unclear pricing could hinder cloud adoption

Central to the attraction of Cloud Computing are the “pay for only what you use” claims made by almost all service providers. But are they as attractive as they first appears?

21st January, Business Cloud9 

 

2012

Supermicro Supercomputer and Compute-on-Demand

Hosted cluster saves Engys in excess of £30k per annum on operational costs Compute-on-Demand service provides 8000 cores more processing power than previously available.

7th December, Cloud Computing 365

Engys in the U.K Goes With Compute-on-Demand from OCF enCORE

This week SMB engineering software developer Engys in the U.K. announced that its new server cluster wil be hosted by their supplier, OCF.

5th December, Inside HPC

Engys Grabs OCF's enCORE Compute-on-Demand Service

Engys, a developer of computer-aided engineering software and services, is using a new high performance server cluster and Compute-on-Demand facility from OCF.

28th November, HPC Wire

OCF hosts supercomputing environment for CFD company

UK-based developer of computer-aided engineering software and services Engys has purchased a new supercomputing server cluster from high performance computing (HPC) provider OCF, which is also hosting the facility at its own site in England.

28th November, Datacenter Dynamics

Engys Grabs OCF's enCORE Compute-on-Demand Service

Engys, a developer of computer-aided engineering software and services, is using a new high performance server cluster and Compute-on-Demand facility from OCF.

28th November, HPC in the Cloud

OCF Supersizes HPC Service

OCF has significantly expanded its pay-as-you-go supercomputing service, enCORE. The on-demand system first launched in late 2010 to bring additional computing capacity to the UK's small-to-medium-sized business community. What started out as a small beta project has developed into a full-fledged, 8,000-core HPC service.

16th October, HPC in the Cloud

The Next Step for HPC is Into the Cloud

Andy Patrizio discusses the capabilities of HPC on demand and how 'high performance computing for rent' is becoming more viable. The article also features views from OCF's Jerry Dixon, Business Development Manager for OCF's enCORE service.

10th October, HP Input-Output

More Core Business in Britain

OCF has massively expanded its HPC on-demand service, enCORE. 

9th October, InsideHPC

Grounding the HPC Cloud

OCF's Jerry Dixon says that only partnering can lead to successful use of the cloud.

July/August, Data Centre Management (Published October 2012)

OCF Expands HPC-On-Demand Service enCORE 

OCF plc, has massively expanded its HPC On-Demand service, enCORE. It can now deliver up to 8,000 cores of vital processing power to a wide range of business sectors in the UK and beyond.

3rd October, HPC in the Cloud

OCF Expands HPC-On-Demand Service

The expansion of the service follows a newly signed agreement between OCF and the Science and Technology Facilities Council’s (STFC) Hartree Centre. 

3rd October, HPC Wire

OCF expands cloud service via Blue Wonder

OCF has massively expanded its HPC On-Demand service, enCORE. It can now deliver up to 8,000 cores of vital processing power to a wide range of business sectors in the UK and beyond.

2nd October, SuperComputing Online

UK's HECToR supercomputer in 27PB MEGA-storage boost

HECToR, the Edinburgh-based supercomputer used by UK researchers to tackle science's more thorny mathematical problems, is having petabytes of disk and tape storage installed in a massive storage expansion.

27th July, The Register

7.8PB for UK Users of HECToR HPC

A new storage environment providing 7.8PB of storage and an additional 19.5PB of backup capability is to improve long-term data storage for hundreds of UK users of the HECToR (High-End Computing Terascale Resource) supercomputer.

26th July, Search Storage

HECToR Supercomputer Gains New Storage Environment

Providing 7.8PB of storage and an additional 19.5PB of backup capability, a new storage environment has been added to the HECToR (High-End Computing Terascale Resource) supercomputer, boosting long-term data storage for hundreds of UK researchers. 

24th July, Inside HPC

Academic supercomputer gets 27 PB of HPC storage

The University of Edinburgh-based HECToR (High-End Computing Terascale Resource) supercomputer has had an HPC storage upgrade that includes 7.8 petabytes (PB) in a DataDirect Networks array plus 19.5 PB of IBM tape.

23rd July, Search Storage

HECToR supercomputer gains new storage environment

Providing 7.8PB of storage and an additional 19.5PB of backup capability, a new storage environment has been added to the HECToR (High-End Computing Terascale Resource) supercomputer, boosting long-term data storage for hundreds of UK researchers.

20th July, Scientific Computing World

Big data storage to serve UK researchers

A new storage environment providing 7.8PB of storage and an additional 19.5PB of backup capability is to improve long-term data storage for hundreds of UK users of the HECToR (High-End Computing Terascale Resource) supercomputer.

18th July, Supercomputing Online

Big Data Storage to serve UK Researchers

 A new storage environment providing 7.8 PB of storage and an additional 19.5 PB of back-up capability is to improve long-term data storage for hundreds of UK users of the HECToR - High-End Computing Terascale Resource - supercomputer.

17th July, Primeur Live! Magazine

OCF cashes in on government HPC investment

OCF is celebrating smashing the £20m turnover ceiling as it reaps the benefits of the government’s investment in supercomputing.

17th July, CRN

Warwick part of new £3.5M supercomputing investment

A £3.5M supercomputing hub is set to power growth and innovation in the Midlands and London by opening up its vast number-crunching power to local firms.

24th May, Science Business

University of Southampton Builds UK's Largest University Owned Supercomputer

The University of Southampton has used its share of a substantial £3.7m award given to a new consortium of research-intensive universities by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) to upgrade the University’s IBM-based “Iridis3” high performance cluster or "supercomputer".

18th May, HPC Wire

University puts more 'oomph' into supercomputer

Iridis 3 upgrade from OCF means researchers in the UK can now get more out of the data center.

17th May, Datacenter Dynamics Focus

University's new cosmology machine set to 'change the way we do science'

Durham University is addressing some of the most fundamental questions in science, such as where 'it' all began.

May 2012 Edition, Technology in Education

Q&A: Julian Fielden, OCF Discusses High Performance Computing

BCW hooked up with Julian to get his thoughts on high performance servers and storage.

6th April, Business Computing World 

The digital universe that lives inside a supercomputer

A computer model showing the structure of the universe one billion years after the Big Bang, the green swirls represent dark matter and the circles represent growing galaxies.

5th April, Tech Republic

Blighty's new top supercomputer bagged by software boffins

The STFC and IBM have announced a major collaboration that will create one of the worlds foremost contres in software development, by launching the International Centre of Excellence for Computational Science and Engineering (ICE-CSE).

4th April, The Register

OCF plays its part in multimillion-pound HPC deal

OCF has sealed its position as the primary reseller for a £30m deal to create a global centre for software development.

3rd April, CRN

Durham University creates virtual universe with new OCF cluster

Durham University can now simulate the Universe and galaxies, including the Milky Way, with increasing levels of sophistication using a new powerful, eco-friendly server and storage cluster built and managed by OCF, dubbed the ‘Cosmology machine’, in its fourth generation, COSMA4 for short.

2nd April, Super Computing Online

When Size Matters

Big data - the massive amount of information companies now have to manage and store - has created a lucrative opportunity for the channel.

5th March, CRN

Lindon Locks Appointed at OCF

Lindon Locks, former pre-sales consultant at Allinea Software and systems engineer at SGI, will join OCF plc. in a newly-formed sales role. 

24th February, Storage Newsletter

G Cloud Winners Unveiled

A "revolution" in the way IT suppliers work with the public sector kicks off today with the unveiling of CloudStore, the online app store of the government's £60m G-Cloud framework.

20th February, CRN

Wired Science

One Supercomputer at Warwick University is connecting the work of hundreds of science researchers around the world.

16th February, Laboratory News