Archive for June, 2010
Cluster building
With all of Bioteam’s talk about cloud computing, I was a bit surprised to find myself building an honest-to-goodness non-cloud, non-virtual compute cluster a couple of weeks ago. There were wires, blinking lights, whirring fans, circuit breakers, and all sorts of messy real-world details to contend with. The servers were heavy and unwieldy, and I [...]
Slides from the Amazon Web Services Genomics meeting
I had the unenviable task of giving the first talk after James Hamilton presented the opening keynote at the Amazon Web Services Genomics meeting James is one of the very very few people writing and talking in public about the sorts of things the mega internet scale companies are doing to drive costs down and [...]
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 ...