Guy Tel-Zur's Blog

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

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

In this post I will show step by step how to install and execute MPI (Message Passing Interface) parallel programs in the .NET environment. A much more detailed tutorial is available here . 1) Installation: My computer is running Windows Vista and Visual Studio 2008 is already installed. Download and install the HPC Pack 2008 (next 5 figures): Then install the MPI.NET SDK.msi (see next 4 figures): 2) Test the installation from the command line (next 3 figures): A "Ping-Pong" program Serial run: As should be, the firewall detects the communication traffic and the user should allow it: Parallel run: 3) MPI "Hello" demo using Visual Studio 2008 and C# (next 5 figures): Start a new console C# project: Add Reference to the MPI component: Build the executable: Execute the parallel program with 8 threads: Verifying the execution of the 8 threads by looking at the Task Manager: That's all for now. Your comments are welcome. Guy Tel-Zur Email: tel-zur@computer.org

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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...