Guy Tel-Zur's Blog

What are the chances that you will be found alive if you entered an Israeli train? Well, according to the recent Israeli trains accidents it is not high. Here are photos I took today of the train that went off the tracks near Kfar Menachem:

Cloud-based Services and Applications Chairs: Prof Mark Baker, University of Reading Dr. Marcel Kunze, Forschungszentrum, Karlsruhe Abstract Cloud computing is increasingly being used for what was known as “on-demand” and “utility computing”. The services provided, the APIs and the applications that can be hosted by these Cloud providers have superseded the use of the grid, and are increasingly becoming popular with users. There are obviously two sides to the services that are provided by Cloud providers: those that are supplied by commercial entities, such as Amazon and Google , as well as those that are open-source systems, such as provided by OpenCirrus and Eucalyptus . In this workshop we wish to examine and explore the services, interfaces and types of applications that can be executed on Cloud systems. In addition, we are interested in the interfaces used to access the underlying services, the pros/cons of using virtualisation, the range and scope of applicat...

Presenter Mordechai Butrashvily CEO Company for Advanced Supercomputing Solutions Ltd. Abstract This meeting will showcase NVIDIA library implementing various performance primitives on the GPU for various purposes, from image/video processing to other tasks. The library can be considered as the GPU equivalent of Intel IPP, although with functionality that is added with time. In the meeting we will overview the set of supported functions, test and discuss performance topics with regard to the GPU. Using this library, users can experience between x10 to x50 performance increases when compared to running on the CPU. This meeting will be followed by another, discussing upcoming LAPACK library implementation on the GPU. To reserve your place, please send your contact details to: info@grid.org.il

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 ...