In the Monthly Review meeting on May 22nd we had two presentations.

First Max Böhm reviewed the initial plans for the joint collaboration between EDS and CERN in the area of Grid Monitoring. Even if he has only been active at CERN for a short time, Max was able to cover the current monitoring situation and propose a strategy for improving it, both in the short and long term. He also announced that a workshop will be organized next month on the topic.

Andrzej Nowak described the unavoidable move to multicore processors. The large number of cores can be exploited with the current strategy of launching independent processes, but in the long term, a move to multithreading seems unavoidable. He mentioned that a workshop is being organized on this very topic later this month. He also covered performance tools and a review that had been done on graphics processors.

Both presentations led to some interesting discussions. The foils can be found on the openlab Web pages as usual.

S. Jarp
CERN openlab CTO