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SGE launchd script maker for Apple OS X 10.5 Leopard
We now have a perl script that will automatically create site-appropriate launchd plist files for Grid Engine - the files are constructed by querying the SGE environment variables and running one of the SGE utility scripts. This may be a more convenient method than downloading our plist files and hand-editing them via the Apple plist editor program.
15Jul2008 | blogadmin | 0 comments | Continued
Integrating UniCluster Express with Amazon EC2
Chris Dagdigian recently test-drove Univa UD’s UniCluster Express, integrated it with the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).
15Jul2008 | blogadmin | 0 comments | Continued
Talk slides from 2008 OSGC event
Chris Dagdigian has posted his talk slides from the 2008 OSGC meeting including “LSF & SGE”, “Fun with SGE XML” and “SGE and Amazon EC2″.
19May2008 | blogadmin | 0 comments | Continued
SGE 6.2beta ‘unboxing’ screencast
A video screencast where BioTeam’s Chris Dagdigian walks through the installation of the newly released Grid Engine 6.2beta code.
16May2008 | blogadmin | 0 comments | Continued
Mike Cariaso wins the 23andMe “Win your Genome” contest
Congratulations are in order for Mike who was announced as the winner of the “Win your Genome” contest being run by 23andMe. The announcement can be read online here:
http://spittoon.23andme.com/2008/05/14/and-the-winner-is/
Bio-IT World Conference Presentations
Download links for the presentations by Chris Dagdigian and Chris Dwan at the 2008 Bio IT World Conference & Expo
1May2008 | blogadmin | 0 comments | Continued
Genetic Engineering News: Managing Data from Next-Gen Sequencing
Bill Van Etten has a piece in the April 2008 issue of Genetic Engineering News.
Excerpt:
“…One terabyte of data is not large by today’s standards. An external terabyte disk can be purchased for less than a few hundred dollars at any office supply store. Accumulating one terabyte per day, maintaining it for rapid online access, and [...]
WikiLIMS - Next-Gen Data Management
Excerpt from Mike Cariaso’s recent column in Bio IT World:
“…We’re now capturing data electronically with no human intervention required. A single device doing this isn’t particularly compelling, but two or more can be. The wiki becomes an electronic lab notebook written entirely by your machines. Because it can be viewed and edited with a [...]
BioInform writeup on IT limitations in next-gen sequencing shops
Excerpt: “As more and more labs adopt next-generation sequencing technology, they are finding that the new instruments are straining their current informatics infrastructures — a challenge the groups are trying to meet with a wide range of different solutions.”
30Mar2008 | blogadmin | 0 comments | Continued
BioInform writeup on WikiLIMS
Excerpt: “Bioinformatics consulting firm the BioTeam is turning to the same collaborative software that underlies
Wikipedia and numerous other web-based resources to help address the formidable data-management
challenges of next-generation sequencing systems.”
Chris is an excellent instructor and brilliant when it comes to SGE. I've taken the course and highly recommend ...
As someone who's taken the admin workshop before - I recommend it! Definitely worth the time and cost. 
That sounds really neat! Will Bioteam be taking advantage of the cloud in any way? Are there plans ...
Very nice! 