Sitola laboratory was asked for a cooperation in the filming of the Good Morning show with Czech Television. Our part of the show focused on the acquisition, processing and display of stereoscopic (3D) video, its past and future. The filming took place on Thursday, April 29th, 2010, with the role of the speaker faithfully and successfully undertaken by Milos Liska. The show will be aired on May 10th, 2010 at approximately 7:43 am. The show will also be available from the CT archive.

New complex workload traces from the Czech National Grid Infrastructure MetaCentrum have been published. The data sets contains:

• job descriptions (103656 jobs)
• node descriptions (14 clusters, 806 CPUs)
• list of queues
• descriptions of machines in maintenance (failures & upgrades)
• descriptions of dedicated and reserved machines

Detailed description together with traces can be found here.
Publication “Complex Real-life Data Sets in Grid Simulations” summarizing this trace is available here.

New version of Alea Grid and cluster scheduling simulator was published. It supports several new features such as visualization, resource failures, several workload trace formats and more.
Alea 2 can be downloaded here.