Dear
Friends,
Thank you all for your support and contribution to our HPC Challenge
effort on:
The Global Data-Intensive Grid Collaboration
Our
collaborative Grid network now has over 200 nodes and we continue
to
receive messages from new volunteers. Check out our collaboration webpage:
http://gridbus.cs.mu.oz.au/sc2003/
nodes list:
http://gridbus.cs.mu.oz.au/sc2003/list.html
*Some
nodes still have problems (they may have problems such as authentication or
behind the firewall, or grid info service/job execution service etc. is not
working). If current status of node is indicated as "Not OK/some
error", please test your machines. My colleagues Jia Yu or Jon Smille or
Lyle Winton or Benjamin will be able to help you.
Also,
we have setup a live and interactive portal for our World-Wide Grid network.
Please
check out:
http://previn.cs.mu.oz.au:8080/gridscape-hpc1/index.jsp
[when you point at your node, click on it and a dialogue box
appears with your node info]. BTW, we have nodes everywhere except
Kindly note that
we are mainly maintaining the names of all contributors/participants at:
http://gridbus.cs.mu.oz.au/sc2003/participants.html
If you want us to
include/list any of your team members who helped in Grid enabling your
computers or helped with software/tools or we missed to include your members
although we communicated with them, please email their names and email IDs
to my colleague Jia Yu (jiayu@cs.mu.oz.au). Also, if you notice any
inconsistency or missing information on the web, please inform her (Jia) and
she will update the website.
We have tested all
working Gridnodes by deploying applications and more about them you will hear
in near future.
One new News: Our team has recently developed a Grid
service ontop
of Microsoft.NET. The .NET based activity is called Alchemi. Please check out:
http://gridbus.cs.mu.oz.au/sc2003/requirements.html
http://www.syntagm.com.au/alchemi/ud_sc2003.aspx
This basically helps us create a
Grid node which is similar to SETI@Home.
We now have many volunteers who are contributing their desktop PC running
Windows! That means you can also add your windows PC to the testbed.
The Gridbus Broker is able to simultaneously schedule/deploy applications on
resources running Unix-class operating systems (such as Solaris, Linux,
etc.) with Globus or desktop PCs running Windows/.NET with Alchemi. Some
info on Gridbus broker can be found in the poster we just created:
http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~raj/tmp/Gridbus.ppt
[we are currently preparing a
poster for our HPC Challenge, which we will put on the web soon]
Regarding the Demo:
Our demo is scheduled as follows:
1. We are likely to demo our
work to HPC Challenge committee on
Nov
18 between
2. Nov 19: 11.30-12.30 is HPC challange formal talk
3. We will also be demonstrating on all conference days in
our booth # 38 (
So,
please keep your machines up and healthy upto Nov 21:-)
I
will be reaching
Please
stay tuned and we will report our progress from
Thanks
again for your help and see you in
Cheers
Raj
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Dr. Rajkumar Buyya
Grid Computing and Distributed Systems (GRIDS) Lab: http://gridbus.org
Dept. of Computer
Science and Software Engineering
The University of Melbourne
ICT Building, 111, Barry Street,
Carlton, Melbourne, VIC 3053, Australia
Phone: +61-3-8344 1344 (office); +61-3-9569 8004 (home)
Fax: +61-3-9348 1184; eFax: +1-413-845-2525
Email: rajkumar@buyya.com | raj@cs.mu.oz.au
URL: http://www.buyya.com | http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~raj
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