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Condor at the IGT

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Miron Livny talking at the IGT event, July 15th, 2009. The presentation of Dhruba Borthakur about Hadoop and Condor is available here .

Art Fair on the Square

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I enjoyed visiting today at Madison's Art Fair on the Square . You can see some photos I took in my Picasa album here .

IGT Event: HPC Workgroup Meeting at Voltaire

Date: Jul 23, 2009 09:30 12:30 Location: Voltaire, 13 Zarchin St. Raanana Agenda Assaf Somekh VP Marketing & Strategic Alliances "New products and developments" Tom Thirer Fabric Management product manager will present "UFM: How to optimize performance with less operational efforts" Amit Katz Ethernet Platform product manager "10GbE in the HPC Market” Assaf Wachtel InfiniBand Platform product manager will present "40 Gb/s InfiniBand Switching Portfolio" Amit Katz Ethernet Platform product manager “ Accelerating Open MPI with InfiniBand or 10GbE ” To reserve your place, please send your contact details to: info@grid.org.il Date Jul 23, 2009 09:30 12:30 Location Voltaire, 13 Zarchin St. Raanana

IGT Event: Condor and the Cloud with Prof. Miron Livny & a Facebook IT Case Study

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Prof. Miron Livny The Head of the Condor project: Open Source for High Throughput Computing (HTC) http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/ Condor and the Cloud - The Challenges and the Roadmap of Condor The goal of the Condor® Project is to develop, implement, deploy, and evaluate mechanisms and policies that support High Throughput Computing (HTC) on large collections of distributively owned computing resources. Today, Condor is being used as a service in private clouds, Amazon EC2 and is embedded in Redhat Linux. Dhruba Borthakur Software Engineer at Facebook and Project Lead for Apache Hadoop File System Hadoop Distributed File System (including Hive) & Condor I discuss the design and architecture of the Hadoop Distributed File system. I then talk about configuration details about the private Hadoop Cloud used by Facebook to process petabytes of data. Date: July 15th, 2009 14:30-17:00 Location: Microsoft R&D Center, Hertzelia To reserve your place, please send your