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Grid Engine on the new Amazon Compute Cluster Instances
{ crossposted to blog.bioteam.net and gridengine.info } Amazon made a very important announcement today, releasing new EC2 server types and network configurations that significantly enhance the Amazon AWS environment for people who are interested in cluster computing, compute farming and high performance computing (HPC) on the cloud. The announcement is here for those who are [...]
Updated presentation: BioTeam WikiLIMS Overview
Updated for Feb. 2010, here is the latest overview presentation deck for BioTeam WikiLIMS. Click on the image for the presentation file. Direct link.
C&EN on Pharma Cloud Computing
Chemical & Engineering News covers emerging use of the cloud by pharma companies, BioTeam gets mentioned along with a quote from Chris Dagdigian. Excerpt: “IT MAY NO LONGER BE FAIR to characterize large pharmaceutical firms as late adopters of information technology (IT). Having spent the past five years catching up to other industries in the [...]
amazon AWS physical data ingest service launches
{also blogged this on gridengine.info} Amazon just announced a new storage feature that I’ve been anxiously awaiting for some time now. Simply put, Amazon is now willing to accept delivery of eSATA and USB disks for large-scale data ingestion into the S3 storage cloud service. This is far faster than internet based methods, particularly if [...]
BioTeam & Schrödinger in new service offerings
BioTeam and Schrödinger link up to offer joint professional service offerings.
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).
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/
Inquiry in the Cloud
Bioteam has ported our award winning iNquiry software to the Amazon EC2 cloud computing environment. Some initial questions and answers are available here: inquiry-ec2
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.”
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.”
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 ...