[Crib-list] SPEAKER: Miron Livny -- Computational Research in Boston Seminar (CRiB) -- Friday, March 13, 2009 -- 12:30 PM TIME: 12:30 PM

[Shirley Entzminger]

					Special
			COMPUTATIONAL RESEARCH in BOSTON SEMINAR

DATE:		Friday, MARCH 13, 2009
TIME:		12:30 PM
LOCATION:	Building 32, Room 144

(Pizza and beverages will be provided at 12:15 PM outside Room 32-144.)


TITLE:		Harnessing High Throughput Computing
		for Compute Intensive Science


SPEAKER:	MIRON LIVNY
		Center for High Throughput Computing 
		Computer Sciences Department
		University of Wisconsin - Madison 

ABSTRACT:

Since the mid 80's, the Condor project (www.cs.wisc.edu/Condor) at the 
University of Wisconsin-Madison has been engaged in the development, 
implementation, deployment and evaluations of mechanisms and policies that 
support High Throughput Computing (HTC) on large collections of 
distributively owned resources.  Guided by both the technological and 
sociological challenges of such computing environments, the Condor Team 
has been building and supporting software tools that enable scientists and 
researchers to address new compute and data intensive problems.  Today, 
the project consists of more than 35 students, full time staff and faculty 
who participate in a wide range of national and international 
multi-disciplinary efforts.  Deployed at more than 2000 sites and 
integrated into the software stacks of most cyber-infrastructures, Condor 
offers an effective bridge between consumers and providers of computing 
and data resources.  We will present the principals that have been guiding 
us in the evolution of our approach to High Throughput Computing and to 
the construction and operation of shared cyber-infrastructure.  The 
potential and challenges of building and sustaining effective partnerships 
with domain scientists will be addressed.

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