Grid Engine & Amazon EC2
I delivered the following presentation at the 2009 Sun HPC Workshop where Grid Engine had a track of it’s own. The talk was video taped so we’ll try to get a screencast/video of the presentation online...
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Maximizing Utility on the Cloud
For the 2009 BioIT World Conference in Europe I was invited with short notice to give a 60 minute talk centering on practical Cloud approaches for life science organizations. The talk was not really...
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Preliminary EBS performance on Amazon Compute Cluster cc1.4xlarge instance types
Post Update History: July 13th – Original post July 14th – More results from cc1.4xlarge single-disk & initial results from c1.xlarge instance type, uploaded new version of the raw data spreadsheet...
View ArticleExploring the new AWS Compute Cluster EC2 Instances
Note: Depending on how you found this post, it might be helpful to understand our own personal & professional biases. We are bioinformatics and HPC types specializing in life sciences, not people...
View ArticleMetrum moves to the cloud
Two Guys and a Credit Card: Metrum’s Amazon Cloud Makeover A case study in transferring a life sciences IT infrastructure fully into the cloud “Over the past few years, many life science organizations...
View ArticleHigh Speed Data Transfer
I recently had the opportunity to present a brief overview of some of the work that BioTeam has been doing with the New York Genome Center. The format was a “webinar,” sponsored by Aspera and hosted...
View ArticleAccuracy Grand Challenge
We have been working behind the scenes with our friends at Life Technologies since the release of the awesome semi-conductor based sequencing machine the Ion Torrent PGM. Life Tech is putting up $1M...
View ArticlePractical Cloud & Workflow Orchestration
Embedded below are my talk slides from the 2011 Amazon AWS Genomics Event. If you follow the link to slideshare.net you can also download the slides in PDF form. Feedback & comments welcome!...
View ArticleStarCluster on AWS Spot Instances Screencast
This is the same screencast that was recently posted up on the Amazon AWS “Scientific Computing Using Spot Instances” page. We are linking to it here and also hosting a 2nd copy via our slideshare.net...
View ArticleMore AWS HPC launches: FSx for Lustre and Elastic Fabric Adapter for MPI
Among the dizzying array of launches at this year’s AWS re:Invent conference, two in particular have stood out as being potential game-changers for HPC on AWS: FSx for Lustre and Elastic Fabric...
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