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Grid-HPC WG Meeting

June 28th, 14:00-16:00 - Grid-HPC Work Group meeting Location: IGT Offices, Maskit 4, 5th Floor, Hertzliya Agenda: 14:00-14:15: OPENING - Avner & Guy 14:15-14:50: DEBUGGING AND OPTIMIZING APPLICATIONS FOR MULTICORE MPP ARCHITECTURES Speaker: Jacques Philouze, Vice President Sales & Marketing, Allinea Abstract: As two, four and potentially eight-core processors become the norm, the defacto HPC architecture is tending towards large clusters of modest 8-16 core shared-memory servers, potentially with co-processing devices (eg. GPGPUs, FPGAs, Clearspeed). Programming these machines optimally presents a number of challenges, and applications that use a mixed programming models are now becoming commonplace. In this presentation we will discuss the challenges facing today's HPC application developers, and the need for simple tools that can address mixed programming models. We will present new multicore features of Allinea's Distributed Debugging Tool (DDT) and Op

How to convert data cd/dvd back into an iso file?

Very simple: type "df" to find the dvd file system name, then: dd if=/dev/dvd_fs of=mydvd.iso That's it!

How To Install VMware Server On A Fedora 7 Desktop | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials

VMware on Fedora-7 (F7) I found the following reference useful when I installed VMware: How To Install VMware Server On A Fedora 7 Desktop | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials However, there still was a problem: After defining a new virtual machine I got this error message: "Unable to change virtual machine power state. The "/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx" process did not start properly...." Any ideas what to do next???? ================================ Later addition: I think this is because the latest VMware is not ready yet for the advanced F7 and its latest kernel. What it did was to fall back to CentOS5.