First post

After several people asked me too many times, I decided to do it too - Wrting a blog.

This week was a very interesting week from the professional point of view.

On Sunday, I wasn invited by local branch of MS to see the new Compute Cluster Server (CCS). Since I lead the technical effort of the Grid in Israel, they wanted very much that I will see and express my opinion in that area.

Well - I am happy to see that parallel computing arrived to MS platform at last. It is clear that since there are multi core CPUs that become ubiquitous, it is unavoidable that it will be used by the general public and not only in the exact science dept at Universities. This service is just the first step and I am sure that MS push it to show they are interested in this field. It lacks most of the up-to-date technology as check-pointing, DAG process dependencies, advanced scripting options, etc. It will certainly make this field interesting in the coming years. I hope that it will not produce two parallel universes that never meet.

On Monday I gave a lecture about Grid security in the ISOC-IL annual conference. There were a lot of people there. Most of them were interested in community services. It is about time that the internet activity will be dominated by the people who use it and not by the technical staff that maintain it.

An interesting session was about IPv6. Yes - that old protocol that is still looking for a way to the real world. It is definitely the right direction. For long time a lot of talking and ink was spent on this protocol and now it is time to use it.

More to be followed