Welcome to NCHC Grid Architecture Research Group

【Project News】

• 2008-04-30: [FYI] ​Microsoft Research Supports Exploration Into Energy-Efficient Computing
  • ​List of Universities sponsored by Microsoft for Green Computing
• 2008-04-28: [FYI] ​Cloud Computing Model
• 2008-04-03: We will use Green Cloud as Project Code Name!!
  • ​Green Computing + ​Cloud Computing = 'Green Cloud' :)
• 2008-04-03: [FYI] How Green is Your Server? ​IBM rolls out "Mainframe Gas Gauge" for servers (​InformationWeek News, ​Chinese News, ​IBM Press, ​IBM Project Big Green)
• 2008-04-03: [FYI] IBM Blue Cloud - ​IBM Introduces Ready-to-Use Cloud Computing: Collaboration Services Get Clients Started with Cloud Computing
• 2008-04-01: [FYI] ​IBM research aims to automate virtual, cloud computing
• 2008-03-18: [FYI] ​Structure 08, San Francisco, CA, USA.
  • ​infrastructure-as-a-service(IaaS) / cloud computing conference.
• 2008-03-12: [FYI] ​Science Cloud Available at the University of Chicago
• 2008-03-08: [FYI] ​Microsoft's Google killer strategy: Finally on the way? (From Director Yeh)
• 2008-02-18: [FYI] ​Carmen study unites computer science with neuroscience (From Director Yeh)
  • Can NCHC create a system like Caremen in Taiwan?
    What technologies are needed by this kind of project?
• 2008-02-01: [FYI] How to configure accesskey of firefox

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【1: Virtualization, Linux Booting and Distributed Computing】

1.1: Kerrighed News

• 2008-05-05: Kerrighed 2.3.0
• 2008-05-05: OpenMP Usage Notes
• 2008-04-18: ​Kerrighed Distributed File System
• 2008-04-07: Programming for Kerrighed
• 2008-03-26: [FYI] ​XtreemOS Tutorial: Deploying Kerrighed, 2006-10-19 (PDF)
• 2008-03-25: [FYI] ​The difference between kvm, Xen and ​VMWare
• 2008-03-24: MPI-Povray Performance Report
• 2008-03-22: [FYI] ​Kernel space: How to use a terabyte of RAM
• 2008-03-22: [FYI] ​Multicore Performance Analysis Tools from Academia (PDF)
  • Karl Fuerlinger, Innovative Computing Laboratory, University of Tennessee, EECS Department, USA
  • This is one of the presentation from ​Sun HPC Consortium / SC'07, Reno, Nevada
  • ​ompP : OpenMP Profiler
  • ​PAPI
  • ​TAU
  • ​Vampir
  • ​KOJAK
  • ​SCALASCA
• 2008-03-22: krg2.2.1 on Debian4.0 Etch amd64 patch memo
• 2008-03-20: NFS Performance Tuning Parameter
• 2008-03-20: Run Linpack in Kerrighed with DRBL Environment
• 2008-03-18: Use RAM in Kerrighed (tmpfs)
• 2008-03-05: Current Known Problem
• 2008-02-21: How to deploy kerrighed nodes massively using DRBL
• 2008-01-31: How to make Linux Kernel and the Operating System Support 64-bit CPU

1.2: gPXE/Etherboot News

• 2008-02-16: Understand the Linux booting procedure (PDF)​ - ​Orignal Link
  • Almesberger, Werner,
    Booting Linux: The History and the Future,
    Proceedings of Ottawa Linux Symposium 2000, July 2000
• 2008-02-01: How to add new NIC(Network interface Card) driver to Etherboot

1.3: BOINC News

• 2008-02-13: How to Build BONIC Server?

1.4: KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) News

• 2008-03-25: KVM Installation?

1.5: Xen News

• 2008-04-14: Xen Installation
• 2008-04-11: [FYI] ​OpenNEbula to provide Xen/VMware powered grid computing
  • ​OpenNEbula
  • Good website to search Xen maillist - ​http://xen.markmail.org/
• 2008-03-26: Current Known Problem

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【2: Data Grid and File System Related】

2.1: GPFS News

• 2008-03-13: [FYI] ​SNMP-based monitoring for GPFS clusters
• 2008-03-08: ganglia monitor system (for monitoring our GPFS cluster )
• 2008-02-26: GPFS Performance Report
• 2008-02-22: Tuning GPFS Performance
• 2008-02-21: How to deploy GPFS nodes massively using DRBL
• 2008-02-20: Building GPFS testbed to support 3D Fly Circit Image Database
• 2008-02-13: Current Known Problem
• 2008-02-04: GPFS Operation Notes
• 2008-02-04: 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: Install mpich2 step by step

3.2 Build R-MPI platform

• 2008-03-17: How to Install R-MPI

3.3 Install R-MPI librarys for biology

• 2008-03-26: Install BioConductor

3.4 Testing for R-MPI Servers

• 2008-03-17: R-MPI Tutorial
• 2008-04-25: Sample Test Result

3.5 Apply R-MPI to YM's R program

• 2008-05-08: Calculate GDI using R-MPI (loop method)?
• 2008-05-09: Calculate GDI using R-MPI (apply method)?

3.6 Kerrighed with R

• 2008-04-10: Kerrighed can support...
• 2008-04-01: Current Known Problem

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【The Readings Schedule】

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【Related Conference Paper/Poster/Demo? Submission】

• 2008-03-10: ​PRAGMA 14, NMNS, Taichung, Taiwan
  • Call for Demo/Poster? - 2008-02-29 (Friday) (done)
  • Demo: How-To deploy GPFS nodes massively using Diskless Remote Boot Linux
  • Demo Schedule: 2008-03-12 (Wednesday)
• 2008-04-01: ​Multicore Expo 2008
• 2008-04-07: ​International Symposium on Grid Computing (ISGC) 2008, Taipei, Taiwan
• 2008-04-14: ​IPDPS 2008 Conference
  • 22nd IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium
  • ​Call for Paper (closed)
• 2008-05-12: ​2008 Open Source Grid & Cluster Conference, Oakland, California, USA
  • ​Call for Participation
  • Submission Deadline - 2008-03-15 / 2008-03-21(Fri.) extended to 2008-03-26 (Wed.) - ​Application Form (updated 2008-03-21) (submitted)
  • Status Notification - 2008-04-15
  • Presentation Slides Due - 2008-04-30
  • ​Registration - 2008-03-14 ~ 2008-05-11
  • Exhibit opportunity - contact mailto:info@…
  • Topic: Deploy Kerrighed nodes massively using Diskless Remote Boot Linux
  • Presentation Title : Status - unknown
    • Massive Deployment of Kerrighed Virtual SMP Cluster using Diskless Remote Boot Linux
• 2008-05-19: ​CCGrid 2008, Lyon, France
  • Paper Submission: 2007-11-19(expired)
  • CCGrid 2009 will be held at China :(
• 2008-06-02: ​The 23rd Open Grid Forum - OGF23, Barcelona, Spain
  • ​OGF23 Call for Participation
  • Submission: 2008-04-11
• 2008-06-09: ​TeraGrid 2008, Las Vegas, Nevada
  • ​Papers and Challenges
    • Paper abstract submissions: 2008-03-18
    • Full paper submissions: 2008-04-01
  • ​Demonstrations, Posters, and Visualizations
    • Abstracts submission: 2008-04-18 2008-05-02
    • Notifications for Demos, Posters, and Visualizations: 2008-04-29 2008-05-12
• 2008-06-17: ​International Supercomputing Conference, Dresden, Germany
  • The International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) is Europe’s leading Conference and Exhibition on High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis.
  • Call for Papers: (​PDF)
  • Paper Submission: 2008-02-19(expired)
  • Call for Research Posters: ​PDF
  • Poster Submission: 2008-04-12
• 2008-06-23: ​WETICE 2008, Rome, Italy
  • 17th IEEE International Workshop on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructures for Collaborative Enterprises
  • Paper submission: 2008-03-17
• 2008-06-25: ​Structure 08, San Francisco, California, USA.
  • No call for paper :( - ​Speaker Nominations Only
• 2008-06-30: ​HPC 2008, Cetraro, Italy
• 2008-07-23: ​Linux Symposium 2008, Ottawa, Canada
  • ​Call For Papers
    • Proposal to Present : 2007-11-15 ~ 2008-02-15
• 2008-08-04: ​LinuxWorld 2008, San Fransisco, California, USA
  • ​The Call For Papers Submission Form - 2008-02-24
  • Submitted: Clonezilla live, the bare metal backup and recovery tool (Steven)
  • ​The .org Pavilion Submission ​Form - 2008-04-11
  • ​Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) Meeting Submissions ​Form - 2008-05-05
• 2008-09-08: ​ICPP-08, Portland, Oregon, USA
  • Call for Papers: (​PDF)
  • Paper Submission: 2008-02-25(expired)
• 2008-09-15: ​The 24th Open Grid Forum - OGF24, Singapore, Singapore
• 2008-09-29: ​The 9th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Grid Computing (Grid 2008), Tsukuba, Japan
  • ​Call for Papers
  • Technical Paper Submission: 2008-04-18
  • Poster submissions: 2008-07-22
  • Poster Acceptance Notifications: 2008-08-10
• 2008-09-29: ​2008 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (Cluster 2008), Tsukuba, Japan
  • ​Call for Papers
  • Poster submissions: 2008-07-22
  • Poster notification: 2008-08-10
• 2008-10-09: [2008 IEEE Asia-Pacific Services Computing Conference (IEEE APSCC 2008)], Yilan, Taiwan
  • ​Call for Paper
  • Paper submissions: 2008-06-15
  • ​Online paper submission
• 2008-11-15: ​SC08
  • SC08 is the international conference on high performance computing (HPC), networking, storage and analysis.
  • ​Technical Program
    • ​Technical Paper Sample
    • ​SC08 submission site
  • ​SC08 Call for Participation (PDF)
  • ​SC08 poster (PDF)
  • ​SC08 Conference flyer (PDF)
  • SC08 Poster
    • Submission: 2008-07-31 (Thursday)
    • Notification: 2008-08-18 (Monday)
• HPC Asia 2009
  • ​Call for Paper
  • Paper Submission Due: 2008-08-01 ~ 2008-09-18
  • Post Submission Due: 2008-10-08
  • Author Notification： 2008-11-28

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