Guy Tel-Zur's Blog

After Gmail failure a few days ago, this is a red light warning to the Cloud Computing model that this technology is still not mature enough.

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...

Maple Workshop - Grid Computing Toolbox Monday, February 23 rd , 2009 14:00 - 17:00 IGT Offices, Maskit 4, 5th Floor, Hertzliya. 14:15-14:30: Opening - Avner & Guy 14:30-15:45: Maple – Part 1, Introduction to Maple 15:45-16:00: Coffee Break 16:00-17:00: Maple – Part 2, Maplesoft Parallel and Grid Computing Toolbox Detailed Agenda: 14:30-15:45: Maple – Part 1: Introduction to Maple Speaker: Omer Yagel, DigiSec LTD Abstract An Introduction to Maple 12 lecture Q&A Lecture's Content Easy start The document interface principles A brief on clickable math Efficient use of the help The Maple philosophy for efficient use Symbolism ODEs Integrals Matrices Naming the many other areas I have no time to show (graph theory, tensor calc...) Numerics Precision ODEs Matrices Internal NAG routines Graphics ...

I enjoyed attending the event which took place today at Tel Aviv University. It was encouraging to see the Bar-Shira Auditorium full of young people interested in Web Services and Cloud Computing. Enclosed 2 photos of Martin Buhr who gave a clear and interesting presentation about AWS.

Date Jan 21, 2009 15:00 17:00 Location IGT Offices, Maskit 4, 5th Floor, Hertzelia Speaker Mr. Stephane Bihan, CAPS Enterprises Abstract Programming for the GPU architecture and multi-core platforms can be a difficult task. Sometimes it prevents from good utilization of the platform and even programmers entering this field. For the aid of programmers, automatic tools can simplify most of the work: providing vectorization, parallelism and better register usage of the output. HMPP Workbench is a framework developed by CAPS Enterprises to help programmers make effective use of multi-core architectures, including the CPU, GPU and other accelerators (FPGA, etc.). HMPP provides compiler support for both C and FORTRAN environments. The meeting will present the features of HMPP, including a live demonstration of porting an algorithm to multi-core and GPU environments. To reserve your place, please email your details to: info@grid.org.il Thank you, IGT For further ...

I installed Windows-7 beta as a guest operating system of the SUN xVM on my Lenovo T-61 running Vista . The installation went smoothly although it required most of the available memory. A screen shot is enclosed. From reasons which I still don’t understand the network interface was not detected, so surfing the Internet was not possible during this test! (I have network connection when I run Suse 11 as a xVM client). While everyone look to the sky these days for Cloud Computing, Microsoft preferred to dive into the sea and to display a fish at the center of the desktop. Strange. I can’t say anything yet about stability and performance but my first impression is of a deja vu; More of the Same. Suse and Ubuntu are still my favorites. We shall see. (This post was written using Windows Live Writer)

The IGT 2008 annual event just ended. Here is a link to a few photos I took using my mobile phone.