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Feature Article #1

Grid Engine LifeSci SIG formed

{ Cross-posted from http://gridengine.info … }
The above image shows a pair of Illumina Genome Analyzer systems installed in a laboratory setting. The Illumina systems are one example of what people are calling “Next Generation” systems for doing DNA and whole-Genome analysis. Everyone is working hard to produce the fabled “$1000 Genome” and there is [...]

blogadmin | February 18th, 2008 | Continued

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Feature Article #2

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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Feature Article #3

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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Life in the trenches …

storage + batteries + serial console, originally uploaded by ChrisDag.
I spend a lot of time in server rooms these days.

2Sep2008 | chrisdag | 0 comments | Continued
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88 Terabyte volume

88 Terabyte volume (mine is bigger than yours …)
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Big storage is pretty easy these days.
It’s harder when you want single-namespace or single volumes that are upwards of 100 terabytes in size.
It’s even harder when you try to do it with reasonably priced middle-tier products rather than the high end stuff that costs [...]

2Sep2008 | chrisdag | 0 comments | Continued
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Illumina/Solexa pipeline w/ Grid Engine

Illumina/Solexa pipeline w/ Grid Engine
Originally uploaded by ChrisDag

From the trenches @ BioTeam …
Illumina (www.illumina.com) is one of a few companies involved in the “next generation” DNA Sequencing race. Each company has has technology that wildly decreases the cost and time involved in large scale genome analysis. Everyone in this space wants to be the first [...]

2Sep2008 | chrisdag | 0 comments | Continued
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SGE launchd script maker for Apple OS X 10.5 Leopard

We now have a perl script that will automatically create site-appropriate launchd plist files for Grid Engine - the files are constructed by querying the SGE environment variables and running one of the SGE utility scripts. This may be a more convenient method than downloading our plist files and hand-editing them via the Apple plist editor program.

15Jul2008 | blogadmin | 0 comments | Continued
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Integrating UniCluster Express with Amazon EC2

Chris Dagdigian recently test-drove Univa UD’s UniCluster Express, integrated it with the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).

15Jul2008 | blogadmin | 0 comments | Continued
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Talk slides from 2008 OSGC event

Chris Dagdigian has posted his talk slides from the 2008 OSGC meeting including “LSF & SGE”, “Fun with SGE XML” and “SGE and Amazon EC2″.

19May2008 | blogadmin | 0 comments | Continued
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SGE 6.2beta ‘unboxing’ screencast

A video screencast where BioTeam’s Chris Dagdigian walks through the installation of the newly released Grid Engine 6.2beta code.

16May2008 | blogadmin | 0 comments | Continued
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Mike Cariaso wins the 23andMe “Win your Genome” contest

Congratulations are in order for Mike who was announced as the winner of the “Win your Genome” contest being run by 23andMe. The announcement can be read online here:
http://spittoon.23andme.com/2008/05/14/and-the-winner-is/

15May2008 | blogadmin | 0 comments | Continued
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Inquiry in the Cloud

Bioteam has ported our award winning iNquiry software to the Amazon EC2 cloud computing environment.   Some initial questions and answers are available here:  inquiry-ec2

12May2008 | cdwan | 0 comments | Continued
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The Cloud, on NPR

Yes, the Cloud is hot. We just listened to a brief, non-technical piece on Cloud Computing on National Public Radio:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90180142&ft=1&f=1019
The issues they touch on include security, using the Cloud to compute your genealogy, and how the consumer has access to super-computation for the first time.

5May2008 | briano | 2 comments | Continued
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