NHGRI Cloud Workshop Slides
April 1st, 2010 • Related • Filed Under
NHGRI (the kind folks behind http://www.genome.gov) recently hosted an internal cloud workshop for investigators, directors, program managers and other folks involved in research, funding & grant structures.
I was invited to participate and give a short talk to open the morning session that concentrated on cloud technical issues. The slide deck from my ~20min talk can be found below.
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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 ...
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Instead of increasing your disk image size, you could have decreased the memory by writing a very short C program ...