Archive for February, 2008
BioTeam Names Bioinformatics Expert Brian Osborne Principal Investigator
BOSTON, MA, February 28, 2008 – BioTeam, Inc. today announced that Brian Osborne, PhD is joining the high-performance consulting practice, as of March 1, 2008. As Principal Investigator, Dr. Osborne will work with clients to deliver solutions to challenges in high performance computing, informatics, and next-generation sequencing. Dr. Osborne comes to BioTeam from his own [...]
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 [...]
WikiLIMS ABRF/AGBT Poster available
Click on the document image below to download a PDF formated version of the WikiLIMS poster displayed at the 2008 AGBT Meeting. Authored by Mike Cariaso (BioTeam) and Timothy D. Read (U.S. Naval Medical Research Center).
ABRF 2008 Candids
Some quick camera phone images showing the city as well as the BioTeam Booth at the ABRF meeting
AGBT 2008 Candid
AGBT 2008 kicked off today. Here is a camera-phone snap of our WikiLIMS poster (poster #14 for interested attendees).
Grid Engine Quick Reference Guide
We’ve put together a tri-fold formatted brochure style quick reference guide for Grid Engine 6.1 and later. Most of the content is from an excellent cheatsheet that Dan Templeton posted to the sge-users mailing list. Check it out and feel free to leave comments and feedback. We’ll update the PDF and the link below will [...]
BioInform writeup on WikiLIMS
BioInform has published a nice writeup on WikiLIMS this month.
BioTeam at ABRF 2008 Meeting
Salt Lake City, Utah – Feb 9-12, 2008: BioTeam scientific staff will be attending the “Association of Biomolecular Research Facilities” (ABRF) 2008 meeting in Salt Lake city. Contact us to say hello or arrange a meeting if you also plan on attending!
BioTeam at AGBT 2008 meeting
Feb. 6-9 2008: BioTeam will be in attendance at the 2008 “Advances in Genome Biology and Technology” (AGBT) meeting on Marcos Island in Florida. Contact us to arrange a private meeting or conversation.
Instead of spending 20 minutes to format an ext3 volume every time you need one, you could just snapshot a ...
Let me add a few remarks about Ext3 as well.
The reason we usually recommend Ext3 instead of XFS is because ...
I'm using these slides to tune SGE 6.2 @ European Space Agency, thanks a lot! 
Great post.
Can you also try our native scale out NFS protocol? Next 3.1 release of Gluster will include it ...
So far my mental architecture is shaping up to be something like this:
Use the ephemeral disks for scratch space and ...
This shows that on-demand HPC still has a ways to go, it is very unfortunate that only ext3 is supported ...
We have had sge62u3 working fine in a 10.5 cluster using cron to startup the sge_execd process on clients. Trying ...
Instead of increasing your disk image size, you could have decreased the memory by writing a very short C program ...