Archive for June, 2009
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
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.
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 [...]
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 ...