Welcome to NCHC Grid Architecture Research Group

Project News

• 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

• 2008-03-05: 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?

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2: Data Grid and File System Related

2.1: GPFS News

• 2008-03-08: ganglia monitor system
• 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 Porting R to mpich2

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: ​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: ​2008 Open Source Grid & Cluster Conference, Oakland, California, USA
  • ​Call for Participation
  • Submission Deadline - 2008-03-15 - ​Application Form(comming soon)
  • 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
• 2008-05-19: ​CCGrid 2008, Lyon, France
  • Paper Submission: 2007-11-19(expired)
  • CCGrid 2009 will be held at China :(
• 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
• 2008-09-08: ​ICPP-08, Portland, Oregon, USA
  • Call for Papers : (​PDF)
  • Paper Submisison: 2008-02-25(expired)
• 2008-11-15: ​SC08
  • SC08 is the international conference on high performance computing (HPC), networking, storage and analysis.
  • ​Technical Program
  • ​SC08 Call for Participation (PDF)
  • ​SC08 poster (PDF)
  • ​SC08 Conference flyer (PDF)
  • SC08 Poster
    • Submission: 2008-07-31(Thursday)
    • Notification: 2008-08-18(Monday)