Recently I’ve stumbled upon the terms citizen science and citizen cyberscience. The last term was apparently invented by Shuttleworth Fellow Francois Grey as a label for BOINC-based distributed computing projects like seti@home, folding@home and his own lhc@home. Grey is also behind the Citizen Cyberscience Centre in Geneva - on the web pages of which there’s […]
Category: General
CERN School of Computing 2011 was… awesome
August 19, 2011 – 10:24 am
As exemplified on the pictures above (from the photo gallery of one of the students), CERN School of Computing includes a good deal of extracurricular activities. Which probably goes a long way in explaining the good and humorous atmosphere in the classroom.
Having spent a lot of energy preparing the exercise with the great CSC team, […]
SSL/certificates ok again.
May 16, 2011 – 1:05 pm
I’ve updated the CA certificates on the public GridFactory servers and their attached worker nodes and made new versions of the software with new CA certificates available for download.
SSL trouble - NorduGrid CA certificate expired 12/5, 12:00
May 15, 2011 – 2:59 pm
As the title says, there’s trouble.
Since I’ve not updated neither the servers nor the software, the GridFactory servers will not trust any NorduGrid client or certificates including their own - so they are effectively down - and also the software is useless until I get things upgraded.
Sorry for any incovenience.
Public beta!
May 9, 2011 – 10:28 am
Dear grid warriors: more tools are now available to assist you in your battles. The GridFactory software including GridPilot is now publicly available for download. Please take it for a spin and report back - either by commenting on the pages of this site, or by email to gridfactory@gridfactory.org.
Good luck!
Limited beta
April 8, 2010 – 10:46 pm
GridFactory is currently being tested in a production setting.
Batch computing according to the Open Group
December 17, 2008 – 3:02 pm
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.
GridFactory release coming up
December 17, 2008 – 3:02 pm
Some parts of this site are still protected, but stay tuned - we’re working on a GridFactory proof-of-concept release in Q1 2011.
Launch of GridFactory web site
December 17, 2008 – 3:01 pm
Today I’m launching the GridFactory web site. This blog is part of it and will be used to announce releases etc.