Brain Murmurs

Don’t believe the hype
Grid computing hasn’t taken off in the way that industry experts have predicted, and we have been analyzing the reasons why for some time now.
Despite the substantial hype and promise surrounding grid computing, discussions are still scarce on the remaining barriers to mainstream adoption. We knew that buried beneath all the buzz, […]

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JMSL is an extremely powerful and widely used numerical computing library. Today I adapted one of the demo applications bundled with JMSL as a JIVA application. I’ve never used JMSL before and this was my first task application written to run on a JIVA Network (I’ve been working on other […]

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Our aging Octane (known as “Oscar”) features a 180 Mhz R12000 CPU and SGI’s lackluster JVM implementation for IRIX. At this point, Oscar has set the record at BMI for Slowest JIVA Client Ever: the average JIVA Client runs at around 392 MFLOPS, and the fastest machines are running at 471 MFLOPS.
Poor old […]

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I presented an overview of JIVA to the Israeli Association of Grid Technologies last Wednesday, and we’re going to post the presentation, along with an overdubbed audio commentary shortly.
I very much appreciate being invited to speak. Aside from being nearly completely mentally incapacitated by the time difference (I had to get up around 4 […]

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Well, I’m in the office on a Saturday afternoon trying to get a head-start on the JIVA SDK release. Right now I’m documenting the code signing process.
This isn’t very hard and I’m currently envisioning some tools that we can provide to make the process even simpler, particularly if you are considering just using a self-signed […]

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Our partners at Cybercamps have started setting up the JIVA Client on their computers. This should make for an interesting summer: there are about 900 machines in the Cybercamps network, which will make for a particularly good stress test of our JIVA Server. If you are interested in seeing for yourself, please […]

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The JIVA website has been updated to include considerably more information and documentation for the all of the JIVA Clients, the JIVA Server, and the JIVA Administrator’s Guide have been posted on our downloads page in Adobe PDF format.

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We’ve been working diligently the past couple of weeks to complete thorough user documentation for the various components in our JIVA Grid-computing Suite. Our plan is to have our client, server, and adminitrative docs available by no later than 5:00 p.m PST today.
We’re trying to make the setup and installation process as smooth and […]

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Hello everyone, I just wanted to touch base for a moment and let people know what to expect for JIVA in June
Throughout June 5th-June 11th
a) Client install/setup documentation for all five available clients:
* Windows Screen Saver
* OS Screen Saver
* Linux Screen Saver
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Garrett has finished testing the new JIVA Linux Daemon and has given it a thumbs up. We have uploaded it to our GForge site and will move it to our regular download area tomorrow.
Most of the next week will be spent updating our user documentation and website.
Nathan is currently working on a […]

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