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GENERAL NEWS

  Date Description
November 6th, 2003 GridRio completed its first year of operation. Congratulations and thanks to all those people who helped us provide the state of Rio de Janeiro with its first grid computing resource.
April 5th, 2004 The computational power (Rpeak) available from the 94 processors of the GridRio Computational Grid is now more than 0.3 TFLOPS.



NEWS FROM CBPF

  Date Description
January 12th, 2004 The Ssolar cluster has been integrated into the GridRio testbed and is currently being tested. We are still trying to iron out a few minor problems. Sorry for the delay.



NEWS FROM DI/PUC-Rio

  Date Description
  Resources may be reserved for exclusive use by local users which means grid user may find the GridRio@PUC-Rio unavailable for a day or two. We will do are best to keep our grid users informed in advance.

If you would like to reserve exclusive access to the cluster at PUC-Rio, send a message to <suporte@inf.puc-rio.br> with the following information: your user login (the account to which your CN is mapped, default is gridriouser); the number of nodes you wish to use; if you are a student, your supervisor's name; a start and finish time; and that you require the Globus Services running during this period.

The list of reservations is available online (execute the command cluster-agenda on the machine server.par.inf.puc-rio.br).

31st March 2004 The cluster will down from 8am until around 1pm Wednesday due to maintainence being carried out on the air conditioning units.
8th - 10th April 2004 Alexandre Gonçalves has reserved all 32 nodes for exclusive use from 8am Friday until 8am Sunday.
20th - 26th April 2004 Rogério Costa has reserved all 32 nodes for exclusive use from 8am Tuesday until 8am Monday.
3rd - 4th May 2004 Silvana Rossetto has reserved all 32 nodes for exclusive use from 6pm Monday until 6pm Tuesday.
7th - 10th May 2004 Silvana Rossetto has reserved all 32 nodes for exclusive use from 6pm Friday until 12am Monday.



NEWS FROM IC/UFF

  Date Description
November 17-21, 2003 GridRio@IC/UFF is participating in the SC2003 HPC Challenge with Raj Buyya's Global Data-Intensive Grid Collaboration.
March 27th - 28th, 2004 All IC-UFF grid resources will be down during the weekend. The building will be without power due to maintenence being carried out on the electrical system.



NEWS FROM LNCC

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This GridRio Initiative is partially funded by the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq).

Apoio CNPq, Lei 8.248/91 e 10.176/01 - LEI DE INFORMÁTICA - CTINFO.