Gozal is a joint project of the Condor Project ^® team of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Distributed Systems Laboratory of the Technion - Israel Istitute of Technology. The goal of the Condor Project is to develop, implement, deploy, and evaluate mechanisms and policies that support High Throughput Computing (HTC) on large collections of distributively owned computing resources. Condor software is deployed in numerous comercial, educational and research institutions.

DSL has been using Condor since early 2002. Ninety-CPUs Condor pool, built mainly of Linux and Windows desktops, is used by Technion's researchers and graduate students. Undergraduates get familiar with Condor mechanisms during "Introduction to Parallel and Distributed Programming" course.

GOZAL (nestling in Hebrew) is a name for the Condor-related projects in DSL, each one aiming to enhance some aspects of Condor, such as availability, manageability and resource security. Most of the projects are performed by undergraduate students. If successful, the prototypes are taken over for production development, to be further integrated with the mainstream Condor releases.

News

(19 June - 23 June 2006) Mark Silberstein and Gabi Kliot participated in HPDC 2006

Mark and Gabi presented "Materializing Highly Available Grids" (Hot Topics). The paper is available here.

(24 April - 27 April 2006) Artyom Sharov participated in the Condor Week 2006

Artyom presented Recent Developments in Highly Avaliable Central Manager project. The presentation is available here (.ppt, .pdf). The configuration tutorial is available here (.ppt, .pdf).

(28 March 2006) Condor 6.7.18 released!

This release includes replication daemon to provide replication of data for high availability, which was developed in the Technion. See the Version History and Release Notes (edited excerpt) for further details. Condor 6.7.18 is available from Downloads page. More details about Replication service for HAD project, inluding design document, sample configuration files and configuration sanity check script are available here.

(14 May - 18 May 2005) Gabi Kliot participated in the Condor Week 2005

Gabi presented a Highly Avaliable Central Manager project. The presentation is available here (.ppt, .pdf). The configuration tutorial is available here (.ppt, .pdf). All presentations from the Paradyn-Condor Week 2005 are available here.

(18 March 2005) Condor 6.7.6 has been released!

The release includes high-availability daemon to provide backup central managers which was developed in the Technion. See the Version History and Release Notes for details on 6.7.6 release. Condor 6.7.6 is available from Downloads page. More details about Highly Available Central Manager project, inluding design document, sample configuration files and configuration sanity check script are available here.

(October 2004) Mark Silberstein and Gabi Kliot participated in the Condor UK Week 2004 in Edinburgh

Mark presented an overview of GOZAL projects. The presentation is available here (.sxi, .pdf). Additional presentations regarding Resource Bidy Guard (.sxi, .pdf) and Highly Availiable Matchmaker (.ppt .pdf) are also available.

(May 2004) Mark Silberstein participated in the Condor Week 2004

Mark presented an overview of GOZAL projects. The presentation is available here (.sxi, .pdf). All presentations from the Paradyn-Condor Week 2004 are available here.