Guy Tel-Zur's Blog

Grids are Dead! Or are they? By Wolfgang Gentzsch, DEISA; Duke University. Published in GridToday, June 16, 2008. See also one of my previous posts: " The End of Grid Computing? " from October 2007.

The following instructions apply for connecting from outside the campus: Step 1: VPN access: Install CheckPoint SNX VPN tool ( S SL N etwork e X tender) for Linux. ( the current version I installed works with OpenSuse 10.3 but crashes for Fedora core 9 ) telzur@gtz2:~> snx -s vpn.bgu.ac.il -u username@vpn then provide your PIN and the Secure-ID code. Step 2: Connect to the Windows terminal server using remote-desktop: telzur@gtz2:~> rdesktop -u user-name -d group-of-users remote-host.bgu.ac.il and you will get this window to login:

I would like to recommend watching the following on-line presentation: InfoQ: Erlang - software for a concurrent world by joe Amstrong, Erlang's principle inventor. These days I am also reading his book . Erlang is interesting and intrguing

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 .

Ben-Gurion University Multi-Core 2008 May 14, 2008 http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~frankel/MultiCore08/index.html The event program

My profile photo is in fact a business card with my details inside. It is a barcode readable by Nokia phones with a built-in camera, e.g. N-95. For more information about this cool thing check this link: http://mobilecodes.nokia.com/scan.htm Point and shoot your camera phone at the mobile code and if you have a barcode reader preinstalled you will be able to store my details. Unfortunately, my mobile phone has no camera so I can not check it myself. If you have a mobile phone with a camera and barcode reader please send me a feedback if it really works.