Poster preview for the GC3Pie poster @ EuroSciPy 2013

gc3pie-poster-preview.tex

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%\title{Py \emph{vs.}~Py}
%\subtitle{A comparison of Python runtimes on a non-numeric scientific code}
\author[R.~Murri et~al.]{Riccardo Murri, Sergio Maffioletti, Antonio Messina}
\institute[GC3]{Grid Computing Competence Center \\ University of Zurich}
\date{EuroSciPy, Aug.~23--24, 2013}

\def\It{\href{http://gc3pie.googlecode.com/}{GC3Pie}\space}

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    {\Large Yet another remote execution framework? ;-)}

    \\ \+

    \emph{\It is \texttt{subprocess} on steroids}: \\ runs commands on virtual
    machines in the cloud, \\ batch-queueing systems, computational
    grids, \\ or anything you can SSH into.

    \\ \+

    The poster shows how to \\ run \emph{model calibration} on a large
    economic model, \\ requiring some 100'000 CPU hours to compute.
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