Events
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 [...]
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.
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.
Cloud Computing for Life Sciences Webinar
Cloud Computing for Life Sciences – Tuesday October 27 2009 Session dates: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 Starting time: 1:00 pm, GMT -04:00, Eastern Daylight Time (New York) Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes Session Fee: $295 (Note: BioTeam did not realize that there would be a charge for this event when we agreed to participate) OVERVIEW [...]
Next Generation Sequencing Data Analysis
On September 20th 2009, BioTeam will be hosting a pre-conference workshop on Data Management & Storage issues for Next-Gen sequencing shops in conjunction with the 2009 “Next Generation Sequencing Data Analysis” conference hosted by CHI: More info: http://www.healthtech.com/sda?c=6910
Grid Engine & Amazon EC2
Talk slides from 2009 Sun HPC Workshop in Germany. This was my “Grid Engine & Amazon EC2″ talk.
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
Short talk at Amazon AWS event in NYC on May 28th
BioTeam consultant Chris Dagdigian will be giving a short (~10 minutes or so) presentation at the NYC stop for the 2009 Amazon AWS Start-up Tour. The tour details and dates are here: http://aws.amazon.com/startupproject/ The agenda for the May 28th event is: 1:00-2:00 Doors Open 2:00-2:10 Opening Statements 2:10-2:50 AWS Overview – Adam Selipsky, Vice President, [...]
Bio-IT World Keynote Slides
Presentation slides from Chris Dagdigian’s talk at the 2009 Bio-IT World
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 ...