Organizations fear hidden costs in the cloud

Cloud computing will be the highest priority for IT investments for the next few years, but the move to the cloud brings a number of risks to organizations that don't do it right, a new study by Research in Action finds.

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Encore Performance: Katria N. Kowal, CTP, balances treasury and family

To say that Katria Kowal has the creative spirit doesn’t come close to capturing her true personality. Dance and music literally flow through her veins. In fact, asked what she most likes to do in her spare time, she responds. "Dance and sing with our children in the kitchen, and living room, and throughout the house. Really!"

An avid dancer, Kowal said "we always have music playing, and our young children already have an appreciation for various forms and genres, and can tell you the composer of the Pink Panther theme!" Kowal’s seven-year-old daughter has picked up on her love of dancing—both Ukrainian and ballet—especially in the Nutcracker, and playing the violin. "Our son can’t wait to play the drums or violin. But at four, he has time to decide" she laughed.

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Navigating the Parallel, HPC Age: Call for Papers

Advances in multicore and many-core architectures have ushered in a new era of high performance parallel and distributed simulation, but along with those new capabilities comes new challenges. To help address those challenges, the organizers of the 22nd High Performance Computing Symposium (HPC 2014) have issued a call for papers.

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Exascale Supercomputer Expected by 2018

An exscale supercomputer that’s 1,000 times faster than today’s petascale systems will become a reality within the decade, Intel fellow Shekhar Borkar said during this year’s Semicon West conference.

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Attempting to Tame Turbulence with HPCs

Turbulence–the chaotic movement of air or water that most people have experienced while flying, in the wake of a boat or even pouring cream into coffee–has been described as one of the important unsolved problems of classical physics. Better knowledge of turbulence can help in a wide range of fields from aerodynamics to climatology. That’s where high performance computers (HPCs) come in.

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Successful supply chain negotiations require multifaceted approach

Supply chain managers are under increased pressure to reduce the cost of operational, medical and surgical supplies at their facilities, making successful negotiating a necessity.

"Hospitals are being challenged to leave no stone unturned," said Curtis Rooney, president of the Healthcare Supply Chain Association. "And the focus of all of these cuts is on the supply chain."

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Avoiding medical supply price mismatches

As medical supply prices have risen steadily in recent years, many hospitals have turned to group purchasing organizations to buy in bulk and keep costs down. But group product purchasing also complicates the product supply trail, often leading to errors that prevent fulfillment, delivery and payment.

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