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In this post, I’ll take a look at some runs of the POV-Ray application available in the GridPilot app store: To import this app, just choose “File → Import application”, navigate to the relevant folder and click “OK”.
This application is a bit more sophisticated than the one used for the simple benchmarking described in a […]
This example is special in that it does not depend on any preinstalled software package (runtime environment), but includes a precompiled binary. This binary will of course only for certain run on the system it was compiled on. We compiled on Debian Sarge and Scientific Linux 5 and run on all back-ends: a local virtual […]
This is the application demoed in the screencast on the front page. The demo uses the default input files - which are 12 royalty free music files found on incompetech.com. This can be changed - by right-clicking on the input dataset, “music_files”, and choosing “Import file(s)”. If you’ve already imported the default files, just select […]
Given the popularity of the iPhone, an interesting use of a batch system is conversion of movie files from the AVI to the MPG4 format. In this post I’ll explain 3 ways doing this with GridPilot. Which way you prefer will likely depend on the number and size of files you want to convert and […]
To gauge the performance of both GridFactory and virtualization layers in a high-CPU/low-throughput setting, we chose the standard ray-tracing program POV-Ray and a standard benchmarking image, shipped with the program.
The standard image that was rendered.
This example is a fairly naive benchmarking exercise consisting simply in rendering the same image with POV-Ray 20 times. Each […]
Plot of ATLAS data created with GridPilot from official datasets.
This example demonstrates the use of GridPilot in data processing in high energy physics (HEP). It makes extensive use of some HEP-specific technologies, that are incapsulated in GridPilot in the form of plugins: the ATLAS DB plugin and the NG and GLite computing system plugins. The […]
GridFactory is currently being tested in a production setting.
Just came across this page. So the Open Group actually has a “Batch Environment Services and Utilities” specification. As far as i can see GridFactory implements a good set of the specified services and utilities, but not all.
Some parts of this site are still protected, but stay tuned - we’re working on a GridFactory proof-of-concept release in Q1 2011.
Today I’m launching the GridFactory web site. This blog is part of it and will be used to announce releases etc.