RCE 30 Condor High Throughput Computing

Brock Palen and Jeff Squyres speak with Jason Stowe of Cycle Computing and Greg Thain of UofW Madison about Condor.

Jason Stowe is the founder and CEO of Cycle Computing(http://www.cyclecomputing.com), a leading provider of open-source, High Performance Computing (HPC) technology on internal desktops, servers, and in the Cloud. Leveraging its expertise with internal HPC, Cycle helps clients provision large-scale, secure HPC clusters in the cloud on demand. Cycle supports open-source Condor & Hadoop, as well as PBS/SGE, to provide innovative administrative functionality and reduce costs in managing small clusters to environments of 30,000+ CPUs. Jason attended Carnegie Mellon and Cornell Universities, guest lectured at Cornell's Johnson Business School, and sits on Amazon's Customer Advisory Board.

Greg Thain is a systems programmer working as a staff member of the Condor Project at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. As part of the core condor flighworthy team, he was worked on many aspects of Condor, including the Condor Parallel Universe, the master-worker framework for parallel computing, and tuning the performance of the system as a whole. Greg has a BS in Computer Sciences from the University of Wisconsin.