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XtremWeb-HEP Gets Support for Virtual Appliance

xtremweb — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 14:58:49 +0000

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

xtremweb — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 14:57:44 +0000

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

xtremweb — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 14:57:08 +0000

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 !

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
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.
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
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

xtremweb — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 12:30:44 +0000

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

xtremweb — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 12:01:45 +0000

version 0.2.7
        - Daos integrated

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Desktop Grid Computing Book

xtremweb — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 12:15:20 +0000

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

xtremweb — Mon, 23 May 2011 11:58:38 +0000

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

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Bitdew-0.2.5 released

xtremweb — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 11:54:38 +0000

version 0.2.5
        -scp transfer (jose)

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Bitdew-0.2.4 released

xtremweb — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 11:53:39 +0000

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

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BitDew does MapReduce

xtremweb — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 12:04:01 +0000

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.