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Slides from 2010 AIRI Petabyte Challenge Meeting

As promised, talk slides from the presentation made at the 2010 AIRI Petabyte Challenge meeting are posted below.

Click on the image or this link to download the slides.

21Feb2010 | chrisdag | 0 comments | Continued
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Grid Engine 6.2 on Mac OS X

Installing Grid Engine 6.x on modern versions of Mac OS X (client and server)
As of early 2010, Grid Engine is effectively not installable out of the box on modern version of Mac OS X. We have seen this recently with server and client versions of OS X 10.5.* as well as the new Snow Leopard [...]

7Feb2010 | chrisdag | 7 comments | Continued
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Great talk on hadoop, bioinformatics and the cloud

Just passing along the URL to a pretty informative video showing Deepak Singh’s talk at a recent NYC area Hadoop World conference. The presentation contains quite a bit of bioinformatics/IT background that some readers here may already know but the Hadoop and large-scale dataset processing content is really quite interesting. If you work at the [...]

2Dec2009 | chrisdag | 0 comments | Continued
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Harvard FAS talk on high speed interconnects for commodity HPC systems

1Dec2009 | chrisdag | 0 comments | Continued
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2009 PRISM Forum Presentation

Talk slides from the 2009 PRISM Forum SIG meeting on “Biomarker Discovery” have been posted here. The talk was a short one and pretty non-technical – aimed at listing out some of the key problems and focus areas in environments where the scientific protocols and technology changes faster than the underlying research IT infrastructure.

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19Oct2009 | chrisdag | 0 comments | Continued
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Maximizing Utility on the Cloud

For the 2009 BioIT World Conference in Europe I was invited with short notice to give a 60 minute talk centering on practical Cloud approaches for life science organizations. The talk was not really technical in nature and had to hit a huge number of topic areas as well. Overall feedback was positive and a [...]

16Oct2009 | chrisdag | 1 comment | Continued
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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 [...]

28Sep2009 | chrisdag | 6 comments | Continued
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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 analysis using [...]

28Sep2009 | chrisdag | 0 comments | Continued
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Grid Engine & Amazon EC2

Talk slides from 2009 Sun HPC Workshop in Germany. This was my “Grid Engine & Amazon EC2″ talk.

9Sep2009 | chrisdag | 2 comments | Continued
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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

23Jun2009 | chrisdag | 0 comments | Continued