RCE04: Hadoop

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Created on Wednesday, 25 February 2009 04:07

Written by Brock Palen

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Brock Palen and Jeff Squyres speak with Christophe Bisciglia of Cloudera (http://www.cludera.com) and the Hadoop (http://hadoop.apache.org/) Project, a free version implementation of MapReduce and Google FS.

Christophe Bisciglia joins Cloudera from Google, where he created and managed their Academic Cloud Computing Initiative. Starting in 2007, he began working with the University of Washington to teach students
about Google's core data management and processing technologies - MapReduce and GFS. This quickly brought Hadoop into the curriculum, and has since resulted in an extensive partnership with the National
Science Foundation (NSF) which makes Google-hosted Hadoop clusters available for research and education worldwide. Beyond his work with Hadoop, he holds patents related to search quality and personalization, and spent a year working in Shanghai. Christophe earned his degree, and remains a visiting scientist, at the University of Washington.

RCE02: HOOMD

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Created on Monday, 26 January 2009 01:07

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Brock Palen speaks with Joshua Anderson and Carolyn Phillips of the HOOMD project.

Joshua Anderson is finishing up his PhD in Physics at Iowa State University where he is researching polymer systems. He is the creator of the HOOMD project and is fascinated by all things related to computer simulation, from the fundamental physical laws behind the simulation all the way down to the micro-architecture it runs on.

Carolyn Phillips is a Phd student at the University of Michigan.  She is a developer on the HOOMD project.  She is a member of the Glotzer Group, which does research in Computational Nanoscience and Soft Matter Simulations. Her research includes studying the self-assembly of heterogeneous nanoparticles.

RCE03: Flash

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Created on Wednesday, 11 February 2009 04:16

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 Brock Palen speaks with Aunshu Dubey of the ASC Flash Center at the University of Chicago about the Flash astrophysics code.

Anshu Dubey is the lead architect for the FLASH code, and also leads the group that develops and maintains the code. She has been with the  ASC/Flash Center since 2001. Her interests include parallel algorithms for scientific computing, digital signal processing algorithms, and high performance computer architectures.

RCE01 Open MPI

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Created on Sunday, 18 January 2009 20:34

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 Brock Palen speaks with Jeff Squyres and George Bosilca of the Open MPI project.

Jeff Squyres is a founder and core developer of the Open MPI project.  He works at Cisco Systems where his full-time job is server-side software development, mainly dealing with Open MPI development/support and representation of Cisco to the MPI Forum.  Jeff's 2004 Ph.D. dissertation from the University of Notre Dame provided the foundation for the Open MPI code base.

George Bosilca is a Research Assistant Professor at Innovative Computing Laboratory, University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He is one of the primary developers of Open MPI and before that FT-MPI/Harness and MPICH-V. His research topics include networking and computer architecture, scalability, fault tolerance, parallel and distributed computing.

For details on MPI the API see the MPI Forum.