Archive for May, 2009
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 [...]
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 Selipsky, Vice President, [...]
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 [...]
Latest WikiLIMS overview presentation
The latest overview presentation regarding WikiLIMS can be downloaded from this link (or click the image above).
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 ...