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BioITWorld Cloud Workshop – Talk Slides

Click on the graphic down below to download the PDF talk slides. This was a short 30 minute talk starting off the 2010 BioITWorld Cloud Computing Workshop. Content-wise it’s very similar to my NHGRI meeting slides except I added more introductory material about cloud segments and definitions.

20Apr2010 | chrisdag | 0 comments | Continued
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PGP Universal Server 3 and XenServer 5.5

Background BioTeam is a Massachusetts-based “virtual” company in that all of our employees work from home when not traveling on business. Being from Massachusetts is actually important because as of March 31st, 2010 the state has passed a fairly strict set of laws concerning how companies handle digital data. Without going into the details of [...]

13Apr2010 | chrisdag | 0 comments | Continued
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NHGRI Cloud Workshop Slides

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 [...]

1Apr2010 | chrisdag | 0 comments | Continued
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CHI XGEN Short Course Slides

As promised, here are the PDF talk slides from the sessions presented at our Short Course on Data Management Strategies for Next-Generation DNA Sequencing — part of the XGEN Congress held in San Diego.

15Mar2010 | chrisdag | 0 comments | Continued
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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 [...]

7Feb2010 | chrisdag | 22 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. Direct [...]

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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