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When: Wednesday, November 24 rd , 2010 Where: IGT Offices, Maskit 4, 5th Floor, Hertzliya. 13:45-14:00: Gathering 14:00-14:10: Opening - Avner & Guy 14:10-15:00: Geomage GPU Cluster - Case Study 15:00-15:15: Coffee Break 15:15-16:00: Impressions from Super Computing 2010 Conference 16:00-16:10: Discussion and concluding remarks Detailed Agenda: 14:10-15:00:   Geomage GPU Cluster - Case Study Speaker: Eyal Hirsch, Senior HPC developer , Geomage Abstract Geomage has been using Tesla line GPUs in production for the last 2 years. The cluster operates at high volumes, in terms of computation power, processing seismic projects around the clock. Presentation will talk about seismic processing and the issues we've encountered from the development stage, QA, multi-GPU all the way to production including a real world case study. 15:00-15:15: Coffee Break 15:15-16:00: Impressions from Super Computing 2010 Conference Speaker: Dr. Guy Tel-Zur – IGT Chairman. Abstract The ...

Advanced Cloud based solutions: Voltaire-IGT hosting eBay, XIV in Voltaire Cloud Centre of Excellence May 12, 09:30-13:00 Location : Voltaire Offices, 13 Zarchin St., Raanana The agenda: 09:30 -10:00 Coffee and croissant gathering                                               Avner Algom: IGT Welcome 10:00-10:30  “ Cloud Centre of Excellence ”                                               Asaf Somekh, Voltaire 10:30-11:00    "Grid-based storage: The complementary solution for cloud computing" Hanoch Ben-David, XIV 11:00-11:30 “ Virtualized Data Centre ”                             ...

IGT HPC Work Group Meeting High-performance computing needs for Numerical Weather Prediction Speaker: Yoav Levi, Israel Meteorological Service http://www.ims.gov.il/IMS/All_Tahazit/homepage.htm Wednesday, March 24th, 2010 IGT Offices, Maskit 4, 5th Floor, Hertzliya. 13:45-14:00: Gathering 14:00-14:05: Opening - Avner & Guy 14:05-15:00: High performance computing needs for                       Numerical Weather Prediction 15:00-15:15: Discussion and concluding remarks Title: High performance computing needs for Numerical Weather Prediction Abstract: Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) uses current weather conditions as input into Mathematical models of the atmosphere to predict the weather. Richardson wrote the differential equations for NWP at 1922. He also calculated that if there was a "forecasting factory", 64,000 people will be needed to solve the equations and ...

IGT HPC Work Group Meeting - Scalable x86-based solutions for HPC Users: Clusters, Cloud, and Shared Memory (SMP) in a unified platform Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010 IGT Offices, Maskit 4, 5th Floor, Hertzliya. 13:45-14:00: Gathering 14:00-14:05: Opening - Avner & Guy 14:05-15:00: Part 1 15:00-15:10: Coffee Break 15:10-16:00: Part 2 16:00-16:15: Discussion and concluding remarks Title: Scalable x86-based solutions for HPC Users: Clusters, Cloud, and Shared Memory (SMP) in a unified platform Abstracts: IBM (Gilad Berman, System x Technical Specialist) Scalable Data Center alternatives: iDataplex, BladeCenter, new management software iDataPlex technology offers a new innovative design to address the needs of the data center with extreme density and simplified manageability while reducing power and cooling consumption. BladeCenter is an established, open design with a flexible, scalable architecture that offers a true alternative to today’s sprawling racks and overheated ser...

The next Israeli Association of Grid Technologies High-Performance Computing Work Group meeting 13:45-16: 0 0, January 20, 2010 IGT Office Maskit 4 Hertzeliya Agenda: 13:45-14:00 Opening by Avner Algom and Guy Tel-Zur 14:00-15:00 Prof. Tilo Wettig, Ph.D., University of Regensburg, Germany - The QPACE supercomputer (Live via Webex) 15:00-15:15 Coffee break 15:15-16:00 Dr. Guy Tel-Zur, IGT – Challenges in teaching Parallel Computing Program: 14:00-15:00 Prof. Tilo Wettig, Ph.D., University of Regensburg, Germany - The QPACE supercomputer Prof. Tilo Wettig will give an overview of the QPACE supercomputer, which was developed by a collaboration of several academic institutions and the IBM R&D lab Boeblingen, Germany. QPACE is a massively parallel architecture, allowing a single application to run on thousands of nodes. Individual nodes consist of a PowerXCell 8i processor and an FPGA that functions as network coprocessor. The nodes are connected in a 3-dimensional torus. The target...

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

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

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 ...

The IGT, Engineering Software Lab and Wolfram Research are happy to invite you to this interesting Mini Seminar on the subject of: Multiplying the Power of Mathematica 7 over the GRID (Plus an introduction to the new computational knowledge search engine Wolfram Alpha ) About the Speaker: Jon McLoone has worked with Wolfram Research, makers of Mathematica, since 1992 on software development, system design, technical writing, and strategy. He supports educational projects in cooperation with universities and government research, and has lectured on Mathematica around the world. McLoone has a degree in mathematics from Durham University, United Kingdom. A Video recording of a lecture on Mathematica Lightweight Grid systems by Jon can be viewed here: Using the Wolfram Lightweight Grid System The Seminar: Part 1 Multiplying the Power of Mathematica 7 over the GRID : An introduction to Grid Computing parallel computing and HPC with Mathematica 7 and gridMathematica Th...

Monday, March 23 rd , 2009 IGT Offices, Maskit 4, 5th Floor, Hertzliya. 14:00-14:15: Gathering 14:15-14:30: Opening - Avner & Guy 14:30-15:25: Introduction to Intel Threading Tools 15:25-15:35: Coffee Break 15:35-16:25: ExaStore® Clustered NAS System 16:25-16:35: Discussion and concluding remarks Detailed Agenda: 14:30-15:25: Introduction to Intel Threading Tools Speaker: Dr. Ami Marowka, Department of Computer Science Bar-Ilan University Abstract Intel Threading tools, Thread Profiler and Thread Checker , allow performing correctness and performance checking on multi-threaded applications running on multicore systems. The parallelization method may be based on POSIX, Windows Threads, or on OpenMP. Thread Profiler is the tool which identifies bottlenecks that limit the parallel performance of your multi-threaded application, locates synchronization delays, stalled threads, excessive blocking time, and ineffective utilization...

- Intel® Parallel Software Tools for HPC and Multi-Core Computing - Erlang for 5 nines Monday, December 8 th , 2008 IGT Offices, Maskit 4, 5th Floor, Hertzliya. 14:00-14:15: OPENING - Avner & Guy 14:15-15:00: Intel® Parallel Software Tools for HPC and Multi-Core Computing Herbert Cornelius, Director Advanced Computing Center EMEA and Alexander Supalov, Engineering Manager Intel Cluster Tools Abstract As we see Moore 's Law still continuing, more and more parallelism is introduced to all computing platforms and on all levels of integration and programming. Especially in the area of High-Performance Computing (HPC) users can entertain a combination of different hardware and software parallel architectures and programming environments. Those technologies range from vectorization and SIMD computation over shared memory multi-threading (e.g. OpenMP) to distributed memory message passing (e.g. MPI) on cluster systems. But it also puts more and more demand on software...

The event announcement The Israeli Association of Grid Technologies ( IGT )

Last week I attendded the HP-Cast 10 conference which took place in Singapore. At the conference, as a delegate of the Israeli Association of Grid Technologies , I gave an overview presentation about Grid Computing in Israel. The presentation PDF file is available here .

THE NEXT GRID-HPC WORK GROUP MEETING Monday, March 31th, 2008 IGT Offices, Maskit 4, 5th Floor, Hertzliya Agenda: 14:00-14:15: OPENING - Avner & Guy 14:15-15:15: UNICORE - A European Grid Technology Speaker: Dr. Achim Streit Head of Division "Distributed Systems and Grid Computing" Jülich Supercomputing Center Insitute for Advanced Simulation Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH Abstract: The development of UNICORE started back in 1997 with two projects funded by the German ministry of education and research (BMBF). UNICORE is a vertically integrated Grid middleware, which provides a seamless, secure, and intuitive access to distributed resources and data and provides components on all levels of a Grid architecture from an easy-to-use graphical client down to the interfaces to the Grid resources. Furthermore, UNICORE has a strong support for workflows while security is...