Presentations
2010 ISMB Amazon Cloud Workshop Slides
Later than I’d like but as promised to attendees of the ISBM 2010 meeting in Boston, here are my presentation slides from the Amazon Cloud Computing Workshop. Link: http://blog.bioteam.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/2010-ISMB-Cloud-Workshop_v1.pdf
Slides from the Amazon Web Services Genomics meeting
I had the unenviable task of giving the first talk after James Hamilton presented the opening keynote at the Amazon Web Services Genomics meeting James is one of the very very few people writing and talking in public about the sorts of things the mega internet scale companies are doing to drive costs down and [...]
WikiLIMS and Toxicogenomics
Stephen Edwards was kind enough to provide his talk slides from his “Wiki-Based Data Management System for Toxicogenomics” presentation at the 2010 Bio-IT-World Conference & Expo. Click on the graphic below to download the PDF formatted version of his presentation.
BioITWorld – Slides from HPC Trends Talk
I was originally supposed to moderate the morning session of the IT/Infrastructure conference track but was asked at the list minute to fill in for Phil Butcher who could not make it to Boston because of the volcano-ash disruption of EU-US air travel. The slides from this talk are not really new as they are [...]
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 [...]
Cluster user training
On the same trip to India, I found myself in the position of delivering a training session to a room with incredibly varied backgrounds and skill levels. Some folks had never edited a file on the Unix command line before. Others just wanted to know where MPICH was installed. This set of slides goes from [...]
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 ...