So Platform announced Platform Cluster Manager (PCM) this week. It is basically OCS rebranded. Why? 1. better name to tell people what the software is for (PCM is alot clearer than OCS) 2. Align with rest of Platform's naming convention 3. More catchy :-) We are planning on Kusu2 and PCM2 new features and capabilities now, and I believe it will give cluster admins a much more usable tool to address the whole lifecycle of ...
Updated May 21st, 2009 at 04:04 AM by beowulf
So we launched the Cloud Innovation Center in Singapore during GridAsia 2009... see press release. The CIC will make use of Project Kusu/OCS as one of the fundamental building blocks... We see Project Kusu evolving over time to address more than HPC.. as a provisioning tool.. I see it becoming a useful tool to people building clouds.
For those lucky enough to be at SC08 and picked up the Platform's bjob t-shirt - good for you. Those not there and missed out on the buzz at SC08.. checked out the awesome T-shirt. Check back here regularly.. and you may just get yourself one of these T-Shirts... stay tuned... ...
Updated January 6th, 2009 at 03:46 AM by beowulf
Came across this innovative way to use a Mac 'cluster'... YouTube - Mac vs PC Happy Holidays!
Today, we'll have a quick look at OpenMP. OpenMP is a set of programming APIs, and compiler pragmas that support multi-platform, shared memory multiprocessing programming in C/C++ and Fortran. The interesting thing about OpenMP, is that it is a very nice simple way to split loops (for, do) into tasks for multi-threading. Our program has a number of "for" loops in it, so that is the obvious avenue to explore for our particular program. Anyone can get a quick overview of OpenMP ...
Updated November 20th, 2008 at 12:57 PM by Bearcat (Added attachment)
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