[
GridRio Home Page | GridRio Administration Page | GridRio News | GridRio Status]
|
This page contains both general news regarding GridRio as a whole and news specific to individual sites. |
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
|
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.
|