A group at HMS has kindly agreed to make the talk available via WebEx. Details for connecting follow (I believe you need to be inside the HMS network or connected via VPN):

Topic: Condor Talk: Cycle Scavenging, Desktop Grids, and Cluster Computing
Date: Thursday, March 12, 2009
Time: 2:00 pm, Eastern Daylight Time (GMT -04:00, New York)
Meeting Number: 711 655 691
Meeting Password: condor

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When: Thursday March 12th, 2-3pm
Where: Minot Room, Countway Library, Harvard Medical School
Who: Professor Miron Livny, University of Wisconsin-Madison
What: Condor Chalk Talk

Talk poster: http://crystal.harvard.edu/~ijstokes/drop/CondorTalk-20090312.pdf

Prof. Livny will provide an overview of the highly successful open source Condor high throughput computing platform and present some of the newest features.

If you've been reading about all of the updates of our servers, you know that they are now getting fairly large. Four of our file servers sit at about 20 Terabytes, and one sits at about 48 Terabytes. In addition, we're caring for another 48 Terabyte server of Ed Fox. And Confocal data will wind up sitting on a third 48 Tb server. Further, we are looking in the face of several more next generation sequencers. We have been working with Nikos George and Terry Haley to try to create a more unified, consistent feeling for our users.

Right now, I've swapped out the other 12 drives on RCBIG2. The RAID is initializing, and tomorrow I'll partition the RAID and create filesystems. For those interested, I'm going to create XFS file systems and compare them with the EXT-3 file systems on the other RAID5.

We heard the clamor, and we've responded (within our budgetary constraints). We will be receiving (stay tuned for the date) a 10-simultaneous-user network license for VectorNTI. Though we wished Invitrogen had maintained their Macintosh version, dropped a number of years ago, and while we wish that VectorNTI had remained free to academics, their academic pricing-policies allowed for a reasonable license size.