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Slides from the Amazon AWS 2009 StartUp Event

Talk slides from Chris Dagdigian’s presentation “Utility Computing for Cynics” at the 2009 NYC stop of the Amazon AWS StartUp Tour can be downloaded here:
2009-NYC-AWS-BioTeam

A few pictures from the event are posted below. It was a great event, standing room only for all of the presentations.

chrisdag | June 1st, 2009 | Continued

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Antibody Docking in the Amazon Cloud

Adam Kraut has written up his experiences with a Pfizer protein docking experiment on Amazon AWS in a recent BioIT World column:
“… The new docking architecture at Pfizer employs nearly the entire suite of services offered by Amazon. A huge array of Rosetta workers can be spun up on EC2 by a single protein engineer [...]

blogadmin | May 29th, 2009 | Continued

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Feature Article #3

Bio-IT World Keynote Slides

Presentation slides from Chris Dagdigian’s talk at the 2009 Bio-IT World

blogadmin | April 28th, 2009 | Continued

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Trends from the Trenches 2008 Presentation

As promised, below is a link to the PDF version of the “Trends from the Trenches” talk that I rushed through at the 2008 Harvard Biomedical HPC Leadership summit:

2008-Trends-from-the-trenches.pdf

chrisdag | October 9th, 2008 | Continued

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Next-Generation Sequencing Problems and Solutions

How will the ability to generate so much more sequence so cheaply affect the sequencing market, and what are the IT implications for analyzing all this data?

blogadmin | October 10th, 2007 | Continued

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Of Sequences and Sneakernets

The data explosion hits even the smallest labs with the arrival of terabyte-producing lab instruments.

blogadmin | June 13th, 2007 | Continued

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2009 Grid Engine Workshop in Germany

2009 Sun HPC Workshop
September 7-10, 2009
Regensburg, Germany

The SGE Workshop returns to Regensburg, now operating as a conference track within the 2009 Sun HPC Workshop event.

Go here for details & registration:
http://hpcworkshop.com/

Pictures I took at the 2007 event:

Regensburg 2007 Pictures
2007 Workshop Pictures

23Jun2009 | chrisdag | 0 comments | Continued
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C&EN on Pharma Cloud Computing

Chemical & Engineering News covers emerging use of the cloud by pharma companies, BioTeam gets mentioned along with a quote from Chris Dagdigian.
Excerpt:
“IT MAY NO LONGER BE FAIR to characterize large pharmaceutical firms as late adopters of information technology (IT).
Having spent the past five years catching up to other industries in the deployment of enterprise [...]

1Jun2009 | blogadmin | 0 comments | Continued
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Short talk at Amazon AWS event in NYC on May 28th

BioTeam consultant Chris Dagdigian will be giving a short (~10 minutes or so) presentation at the NYC stop for the 2009 Amazon AWS Start-up Tour.
The tour details and dates are here:
http://aws.amazon.com/startupproject/
The agenda for the May 28th event is:

1:00-2:00 Doors Open
2:00-2:10 Opening Statements
2:10-2:50 AWS Overview – Adam [...]

26May2009 | chrisdag | 0 comments | Continued
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amazon AWS physical data ingest service launches

{also blogged this on gridengine.info} Amazon just announced a new storage feature that I’ve been anxiously awaiting for some time now.
Simply put, Amazon is now willing to accept delivery of eSATA and USB disks for large-scale data ingestion into the S3 storage cloud service. This is far faster than internet based methods, particularly if [...]

21May2009 | chrisdag | 0 comments | Continued
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Latest WikiLIMS overview presentation

The latest overview presentation regarding WikiLIMS can be downloaded from this link (or click the image above).

6May2009 | blogadmin | 0 comments | Continued
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BioTeam Group Photo

29Apr2009 | chrisdag | 0 comments | Continued
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Mike Cariaso talks “technology without borders”

Mike Cariaso’s presentation on a recent trip to South East Asia where he spent time teaching internet and programming skills in rural villages

29Apr2009 | blogadmin | 0 comments | Continued