XtremWeb-HEP Gets Support for Virtual Appliance

The new release of XtremWeb-HEP 8.0.0 is a real breakthrough in the world of Desktop Grid Computing. For the first time, DG users are able to register their own Virtual Images for their preferred OS and applications and remotely deploy them on Volunteer PC. Thanks to the embedded IBIS smart socket technology, users can directly and securely ssh to the remote VM even of if the PC is located behind firewall. The convergence of Desktop Grid Computing and Cloud Computing is there. Checkout XtremWeb-HEP web site and read this tutorial for more details.

Team is Growing

Excellent news, Simon Delamare got a permanent Research Engineer position at CNRS ! Bing Tang stays one more year as a postdoc, and Anthony Simonet joins the team as a PhD student !

Recent MapReduce Publications

Couple of new publications about MapReduce to appear. Following  our original implentation of MapReduce for Desktop Grid [1], we have investigated decentralized results checking with M. Moca and G. Silaghi (Babes Bolyai Univ.) [2]. With Luis Rodero-Merino (Univ. Madrid) and Adrian Muresan, we have wrote a chapter about MapReduce and Hadoop [3], and with Heshan Lin and Wu-Chun Feng (Virginia-Tech) a chapter presenting our researches around MapReduce  in the Desktop Grid Computing Book [4]. At the moment, we’re continuing our work on MapReduce/BitDew with Lu Lu and Xuanhua Shi (HUST, Wuhan) and Hybrid MapReduce/{BitDew|Blobseer} with G. Antoniu (INRIA). Stay tuned !

1. Towards MapReduce for Desktop Grid Computing .B. Tang, M. Moca, S. Chevalier, H. He, and G. Fedak. In Fifth International Conference on P2P, Paral lel, Grid, Cloud and Internet Computing (3PGCIC’10), Fukuoka, Japan, November 2010. IEEE. PDF
2. Distributed Results Checking for MapReduce on Volunteer Computing Mircea Moca and Gheorghe Cosmin Silaghi and Gilles Fedak, in 4th Workshop on Desktop Grids and Volunteer Computing Systems (PCGrid 2010) IPDPS’2011, Ancorage Alaska.
3. MapReduce and Hadoop, L. Rodero-Merino, G. Fedak and A. Muresan Book Chapter in Open Source Cloud Computing Systems: Practices and Paradigms, IGI Global, 2011
4. Data-Intensive Computing on Desktop Grids, H. Lin and W.-C. Feng and G. Fedak Book Chapter in Desktop Grid Computing Book, CRC Press, 2011

SpeQuloS: Providing QoS to Desktop Grids

We are pleased to announce the first release and deployments of SpeQuloS, a framework to provide quality of service for bag-of-tasks application executed on desktop Grids. SpeQuloS  detects when an application execution is slowing down and dynamically move the remaing tasks on the Cloud.  SpeQuloS supports BOINC and XtremWeb-HEP as DG and as been successfully tested with Amazon EC2, Eucalyptus OpenNebula, OpenStack, RackSpace as Clouds  Stay tunes for updates ! See the description of the project here and download the software here.

Bitdew-0.2.7 released

version 0.2.7
        - Daos integrated

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Desktop Grid Computing Book

Christophe Cérin and Gilles Fedak  are co-editing a book on Desktop Grid Computing, published by  CRC Pres. More about the book here.

Bitdew-0.2.6 released

version 0.2.6
        - scp and dnaming tutorial completed
        - properties changed to json format

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Bitdew-0.2.5 released

version 0.2.5
        -scp transfer (jose)

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Bitdew-0.2.4 released

version 0.2.4
	- cmdline tool can put and get data
	- cmdline tool can schedule data

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BitDew does MapReduce

The BitDew team is happy to participate to the French ANR project MapReduce, lead by Gabriel Antoniu. Our first paper presenting an original implementation of MapReduce for large scale Desktop Grid has been presented in November at the 3PGCIC conference at Fukuoka, Japan.