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= Welcome to NCHC Grid Architecture Research Group =

== Project News ==
 * 2008-03-08: [FYI] [http://www.news.com/8301-10787_3-9883909-60.html Microsoft's Google killer strategy: Finally on the way?] (From Director Yeh)
 * 2008-02-18: [FYI] [http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/Article.aspx?liArticleID=229098&PrinterFriendly=true Carmen study unites computer science with neuroscience] (From Director Yeh)
   * Can NCHC create a system like Caremen in Taiwan?[[BR]] What technologies are needed by this kind of project?
 * 2008-02-01: [FYI] [wiki:firefox_accesskey How to configure accesskey of firefox]

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== 1: Virtualization, Linux Booting and Distributed Computing == 
=== 1.1: Kerrighed News ===
 * 2008-03-05: [wiki:krg_problem Current Known Problem]
 * 2008-02-21: [wiki:krg_DRBL How to deploy kerrighed nodes massively using DRBL]
 * 2008-01-31: [wiki:Kernel_x86_64_Support How to make Linux Kernel and the Operating System Support 64-bit CPU]
=== 1.2: gPXE/Etherboot News ===
 * 2008-02-16: [attachment:wiki:gpxe-sis900:ols2k-9.pdf Understand the Linux booting procedure (PDF)] - [http://www.almesberger.net/cv/papers.html Orignal Link]
   * Almesberger, Werner,[[BR]]'''Booting Linux: The History and the Future''',[[BR]] Proceedings of Ottawa Linux Symposium 2000, July 2000
 * 2008-02-01: [wiki:gpxe-sis900 How to add new NIC(Network interface Card) driver to Etherboot]

=== 1.3: BOINC News ===
 * 2008-02-13: [wiki:BOINC_Server How to Build BONIC Server]

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== 2: Data Grid and File System Related ==

=== 2.1: GPFS News ===
 * 2008-03-08: [wiki:GPFS_ganglia ganglia monitor system (for monitoring our GPFS cluster )]
 * 2008-02-26: [wiki:GPFS_Performance GPFS Performance Report]
 * 2008-02-22: [wiki:GPFS_Tuning Tuning GPFS Performance]
 * 2008-02-21: [wiki:GPFS_DRBL How to deploy GPFS nodes massively using DRBL]
 * 2008-02-20: [wiki:GPFS_3D Building GPFS testbed to support 3D Fly Circit Image Database]
 * 2008-02-13: [wiki:Problem Current Known Problem]
 * 2008-02-04: [wiki:GPFS_Operation GPFS Operation Notes]
 * 2008-02-04: [wiki:GPFS_Install GPFS Installation Notes (Chinese)]

=== 2.2: FTPfs News ===
 * 2008

=== 2.3: SRBfs News ===
 * 2008

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== 3: R-MPI ==
=== 3.1 Install mpich2 on VMware ===
 * 2008-03-06 [wiki:MPICH2_Install Install mpich2 step by step]
=== 3.2 Build R-MPI platform ===
=== 3.3 Testing for R-MPI Servers ===

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== The Readings Schedule ==
 * 2008-03-14
   * Chris - MPI
   * Zsjheng - FUSE
 * 2008-03-21
   * Waue - hadoop
   * Sunny - Hypertable
 * 2008-03-28
   * Chwhs - Hypertable
   * Rock - Virtualization in Grid
 * 2008-04-11
 * 2008-04-18
 * 2008-04-25
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== Related Conference ==
 * 2008-03-10: [http://www.nchc.org.tw/event/2008/pragma/ PRAGMA 14, HsinChu, Taiwan]
   * Call for Demo/Poster - __'''2008-02-29 (Friday)'''__
   * Demo: '''How-To deploy GPFS nodes massively using Diskless Remote Boot Linux'''
 * 2008-05-12: [http://www.opensourcegridcluster.org/ 2008 Open Source Grid & Cluster Conference, Oakland, California, USA]
   * [http://www.opensourcegridcluster.org/CFP.html Call for Participation]
   * Submission Deadline - __'''2008-03-15'''__ - [http://www.opensourcegridcluster.org/CFP.html Application Form(comming soon)]
   * Status Notification - __'''2008-04-15'''__
   * Presentation Slides Due - __'''2008-04-30'''__
   * [http://www.opensourcegridcluster.org/registration.html Registration] - __'''2008-03-14'''__ ~ __'''2008-05-11'''__
   * Exhibit opportunity - contact mailto:info@opensourcegridcluster.org
   * Topic: '''Deploy Kerrighed nodes massively using Diskless Remote Boot Linux'''
 * ~~2008-05-19: [http://ccgrid2008.ens-lyon.fr/ CCGrid 2008, Lyon, France]~~
   * ~~Paper Submission: __'''2007-11-19'''__(expired)~~
   * CCGrid 2009 will be held at China :(
 * ~~2008-06-17: [http://www.supercomp.de/isc08/content/ International Supercomputing Conference], Dresden, Germany~~
   * ~~Call for Papers: ([http://www.supercomp.de/isc08/content/e53/e57/e1158/ISC08PM1e_CFP.pdf PDF])~~
   * ~~Paper Submission: __'''2008-02-19'''__(expired)~~
 * 2008-08-04: [http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/ LinuxWorld 2008, San Fransisco, California, USA]
   * [http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/speakers/callforpapers/CC974830 The Call For Papers Submission Form] - __'''2008-02-24'''__
   * Submitted: '''Clonezilla live, the bare metal backup and recovery tool (Steven)'''
   * [http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/speakers/SN933506 The .org Pavilion Submission Form] - __'''2008-04-11'''__
 * ~~2008-09-08: [http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~icpp2008/ ICPP-08, Portland, Oregon, USA]~~
   * ~~Call for Papers: ([http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~icpp2008/icpp2008_cfp.pdf PDF])~~
   * ~~Paper Submission: __'''2008-02-25'''__(expired)~~
 * 2008-11-15: [http://sc08.supercomputing.org/ SC08] 
   * SC08 is the international conference on '''high performance computing (HPC), networking, storage''' and analysis.
   * [http://sc08.supercomputing.org/?pg=techprogram.html Technical Program]
   * [http://sc08.supercomputing.org/html/SC08CallForParticipation.pdf SC08 Call for Participation (PDF)]
   * [http://sc08.supercomputing.org/html/SC08HorsePoster.pdf SC08 poster (PDF)]
   * [http://sc08.supercomputing.org/images/SC08TXflyer.pdf SC08 Conference flyer (PDF)]
   * SC08 Poster
     * Submission: __'''2008-07-31(Thursday)'''__
     * Notification: __'''2008-08-18(Monday)'''__