1. Derek Weitzel Grid Computing

2. Background B.S. Computer Engineering from University of Nebraska – Lincoln (UNL) 3 years administering supercomputers at UNL Built, maintained, and developed 3 tiled display walls. Interests: Distributed Computing (Hadoop, ~MPI…) Data Visualization (http://www.youtube.com/user/djw8605)http://www.youtube.com/user/djw8605 Cluster/Supercomputer Administration Computer Architecture

3. Interest In Grids CMS Tier-2 hosted at UNL (Red) Grid Storage (SE) Parallel algorithms deployed on the grid Real-Time interactive visualizations

4. Research Directions Hadoop on the Grid Hadoop: http://hadoop.apache.org/http://hadoop.apache.org/ Used as Storage and a Distributed Processing Framework Data Visualization Fish: http://sourceforge.net/projects/fish-monitoringhttp://sourceforge.net/projects/fish-monitoring Cluster monitoring tool using ganglia http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LM1j_8sWSEk Hadoop Visualization: Distributed file system real-time visualization. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WudR7mAUHQ

5. Future Grid Plans Hadoop on the grid Running a parallel map-reduce job on a grid machine Install and Maintain a CE on a local cluster to utilize idle cycles Assist local researchers to adapt their code to the grid environment