Windows HPC 2008 evaluation

Our team has been helping Windows HPC 2008 product team at Shanghai in comparing the new Windows HPC technology against Linux Clustering platform. We have also visit Microsoft product team in Shanghai to present our founding and sharing our knowledge and suggestion founded during the evaluation.

Cluster at University of Malaya

Setting up about 16 nodes cluster at University of Mayala for Prof. Christopher Jesudasan, the cluster has been up and running, equipped with ROCKS 3, as a working Linux cluster.

Virgin Radio Thailand web cluster implementation

Virgin Radio Thailand is one of the top radio channel operator in Thailand. Virgin Radio Thailand had been using a normal single web server to run the web to its limit, and decided to switch over to a web cluster architecture. We had implement the initial web cluster using CentOS4 + fail-over solution using Keep-alived. The cluster has been working very well.

Co-developer on Linux clustering software – ROCKS

We are one of the developers that helping ROCKS team to develop many Rolls, a plug-in for ROCKS to convert a Linux cluster into application specification cluster. For example, OpenSCE roll for better cluster management, Diskless roll for ROCKS without disks, Animation Studio Roll for using ROCKS as 3D animation rendering farm, and Thaigrid roll for zero-configuration on cluster installation to help ThaiGrid administrators automatically install and plug the cluster in to Thai National Grid Project easier.

Implementing and maintain the biggest cluster in Thailand at Thai National Grid Center

The TERA cluster, the biggest and highest performance cluster of Thailand at the time it was being built, has been partly build and maintained by our team. The cluster has been providing job submission for user from all partner institutes of Thai National Grid Center for years, providing 300+ years of computing time compare to single machine. We also did the accounting report, user management support, cluster file system stabilization, and automatic power management and provisioning. Most of the softwares being done during the period has been published as open source softwares, publicly available for people interested.

Bandwidth monitoring application for ThaiGrid

The bandwidth monitoring of ThaiGrid project is a crucial part of ThaiGrid that makes the grid application working, by constantly measure and visualize bandwidth statistics. This project has been used to improve the overall bandwidth of ThaiGrid members, making the Grid working for members. The project has been implemented as open source project in part of OpenSCE project.

Managing the virtual infrastructure of ThaiGrid

We are the team to plan and deliver the basic infrastructure for ThaiGrid, which is now consolidated and virtualize to run using virtualization technology. Web server, mail server, file server, and development (subversion) server, and also some of the test cluster, have been runing for years in virtualization.

Training

We have been conducting many training base on many topics on technology, for example

• Windows HPC platform (2008 and 2003)
• Linux compute cluster base on ROCKS
• Linux web clustering
• Linux user & administrator course
• C Programming and development course.
• MySQL Cluster course

Some names of our clients are University of Malaya, Asian University of Technology, and Kasetsart University.

Developing Microblog-purple plug-in for Pidgin IM

Since the Twitter services on IM went down, the need to communicate to Twitter using IM is indeed critical and making the usage of Twitter services much difficult than it is. We are the first one to deliver the Plug-in for integrating Pidgin, a famous multi-protocol IM client for Linux & Windows, for Microblogging for Twitter, Identi.ca, and Laconica platform. Since first launch of Microblog-purple during September, it has been downloaded more than 1700 times. The project is now hosted as open-source project at http://microblog-purple.googlecode.com.

Developing of jibjib twitter client on mobile phone

Microblogging is powerful as long as users are able to post status update whenever and wherever they want. SMS is a standard approach because of simplicity. However, sending international SMS will be bad idea for frequent updates. jibjib is an opensource J2ME Twitter client designed to support all ranges of mobile devices. This project is hosted at http://jibjib.googlecode.com/ and widely used in Thailand and Japan.

Developing of Birdnest twitter gateway

Twitter APIs usually return big data message. There is no problem for high-speed connection when running on desktop. However, big data message may slow down GPRS/EDGE connection on mobile devices. Birdnest solves this problem by intercepting in the middle of Twitter client and Twitter itself to remove unnecessary data and also fix incorrect data on the fly. Birdnest mainly targets to help jibjib but other Twitter clients may use Birdnest without problem. This project is hosted as an open-source project at http://birdnest.google.com/.