June 2014 ISC’14 Special Edition

5 New CDS Functions to Meet New Regulatory Requirements?
Ensuring efficient method development and routine operation into the future

10  Collaboration in the Cloud
Research virtualization is accelerating market evolution

16 International Supercomputing Conference Offers Something for Everyone

21 Recognizing ROI and Innovative Application of HPC
Basic tools are now available to test efficacy — it’s worth taking a look

24 Assessing Cloud ROI for HPC and Enterprise
Big Data tools such as Grok and IBM Watson are enabling large organizations to behave more like agile startups

27 Doing Data Science: Straight Talk from the Front Line
While having many pluses, this book is not for every budding data analyst

28 Time Series Analysis: Identifying Underlying Patterns
The goal of this type of analysis can be divided into characterization or prediction