Tag Archives: grid-computing

Observations on SunGrid Customer Care

25 October 2006 – 12:24 pm

I haven’t used the SunGrid this week. In fact, no one has: there was a four day outage from last Saturday morning through this morning. I received a notification about this last Wednesday evening. In compensation, Sun has credited me (and presumably everyone) with 100 additional free CPU hours, which was thoughtful. However, if the IPTPS submission [...]

By Emil Sit | Posted in Research | Comments (1)

First steps with the SunGrid

15 October 2006 – 1:02 am

The SunGrid is an on-demand grid computing infrastructure: you pay per CPU-hour as you need it, Sun provides the hardware. I recently got access to the SunGrid as part of a generous grant of CPU hours by Sun to my research lab, CSAIL, and I’m mostly quite pleased with it.

John Powers rightly notes that it is not trivial to [...]

By Emil Sit | Posted in Research | Also tagged | Comments (0)