Vicki Lockhart, Author at Red Oak Consulting

Federal Investment in Exascale – What It Really Means

October 15, 2023 by Vicki Lockhart

Earlier this month, the EuroHPC JU (Joint Undertaking) reached critical mass, and it seems all EU and affiliated member states, bar the UK (unsurprisingly), have or will sign on. Read more…

Looking Forward to SC22 in Dallas

November 13, 2024November 14, 2022 by Vicki Lockhart

Bags are being packed, calendars are filling up and people are busy working out where their meetings are on Google Maps. Exactly how far and how fast, they must hoof it between hotels and meeting room suites, is the looming thought! As someone who isn’t attending in person this year, I’ve instead been thinking about … Read more

What happens to your IT practices when you spin up an HPC cluster, in an hour?

March 7, 2024November 8, 2021 by Vicki Lockhart

Red Oak Consulting successfully held its latest HPC in the Cloud webinar on 8th December 2021. Held, in partnership with Microsoft and Intel we talked about the ease of spinning up an HPC cluster, in the cloud. and the implications to your IT practices. Pictured below are a few captions from the webinar … Read more

HPC Storage Costs On-Premises Vs Cloud

August 15, 2024September 9, 2021 by Vicki Lockhart

The Red Oak Microsoft Azure HPC Collaboration Centre

September 2, 2021 by Vicki Lockhart

Red Oak Consulting is a proud partner of the Azure HPC and AI Collaboration Center program. The aim of the most recent collaboration was to show how to set up a HPC cluster using Azure CycleCloud. As part of the programme our Senior Consultant, Manveer Munde, wrote three whitepapers and produced three videos to show how … Read more

Secure or Not Secure – That is the Question

August 15, 2024March 27, 2020 by Vicki Lockhart

Various security tools and features have been made available to Cloud end users over the past few years. They are designed to allow the application of security best practices on a Cloud infrastructure, similar to how it is with an on-premise data centre. Yet many skeptics’ have questions around security in the Cloud, for example: … Read more

HPC Transition: On-Premise to Cloud Webinar

January 14, 2020 by Vicki Lockhart

Red Oak Consulting, in partnership with Microsoft Azure, held a well received webinar on the 2nd December 2020. The webinar focused on answering those must asked questions when considering Cloud as a solution for High-Performance Computing service delivery. Having undertaking a significant number of HPC in the Cloud projects, we focused this webinar on … Read more

Industry Consolidation and the path to Exascale

January 14, 2020 by Vicki Lockhart

The HPC industry saw continued consolidation throughout 2019 and the gene pool of HPC companies continues to steadily shrink, with the trend likely to carry on in 2020. What this will mean for the industry will depend on which side of the fence you sit? If you are a supplier, then a merger or acquisition … Read more

Forecast: Cloudy with a chance…

March 21, 2019 by Vicki Lockhart

I recently joined Red Oak Consulting with a background in Enterprise IT. In the world of Enterprise IT, the arguments about whether or not to move to the cloud are all but over and organisations building new Enterprise IT solutions in 2019 are doing so in the cloud. The world of HPC with its higher … Read more

Supercomputing 2018 (SC18)

November 28, 2018 by Vicki Lockhart

Once again, Red Oak Consulting attended the annual industry event of Supercomputing. This year it was held in the US city of Dallas. It was, as always, a great opportunity for our consultants to meet with industry colleagues whilst allowing for informative updates on all the latest technology and developments. Following positive feedback and demand … Read more