Archive for September, 2009
Grid Engine Administration – Training Slides
After much thought we’ve decided to release PDF versions of some Grid Engine Administration training slides that BioTeam has used in the past. We hope the community will find them useful; internally we are working on new materials that will incorporate screen sharing technologies, videos, screencasts and better online learning environments (including training systems with [...]
Epigenomics & massively parallel sequencing
Masako Suzuki, DVM PhD from the Center for Epigenomics, Department of Genetics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York recently gave a presentation at the 2009 “Next Generation Sequencing Data Analysis” meeting held in Providence, RI. The talk was called “Epigenomic analysis using massively-parallel sequencing”, the presentation slides can be downloaded here: Epigenomic [...]
Cloud Computing for Life Sciences Webinar
Cloud Computing for Life Sciences – Tuesday October 27 2009 Session dates: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 Starting time: 1:00 pm, GMT -04:00, Eastern Daylight Time (New York) Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes Session Fee: $295 (Note: BioTeam did not realize that there would be a charge for this event when we agreed to participate) OVERVIEW [...]
Next Generation Sequencing Data Analysis
On September 20th 2009, BioTeam will be hosting a pre-conference workshop on Data Management & Storage issues for Next-Gen sequencing shops in conjunction with the 2009 “Next Generation Sequencing Data Analysis” conference hosted by CHI: More info: http://www.healthtech.com/sda?c=6910
Grid Engine & Amazon EC2
Talk slides from 2009 Sun HPC Workshop in Germany. This was my “Grid Engine & Amazon EC2″ talk.
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 ...