General

OGF23 was held last week in Barcelona in conjunction with the BEinGRID industry days events. OGF events, in addition to having great program content, are an excellent way to keep in touch with Grid computing practitioners all over the world, and OGF23 was no exception.

Some of the highlights for me.....

Standards Convergence

For a number of years now I have worked on specifications for interfaces to job management systems in the form of JSDL, OGSA-BES, ...

The High Performance Computing (HPC) area is undergoing quite a bit of changes that may impact how HPC applications are developed, and operated over the next few years. We here in the research group at Platform Computing are tracking a number of technology trends and trying to get a handle on how they will impact the HPC Community. To kick things off here is an initial list of possible areas:

1. Cloud Computing. The advent of services like Amazon EC2 has provided opportunities to ...

The HPCCommunity.org effort is a technical community for the High Performance Computing (HPC) community. We focus on:

• best practise in building, operating and managing HPC clusters
• programming HPC clusters and Grid
• components of HPC clusters such as batch schedulers, cluster filesystems, cluster monitoring, systems management including deployment and maintenance of clusters
• high performance, low latency grid middleware
• enterprise grid resource management technology
• state-of-the-art,

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