Presentations
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, [...]
Latest WikiLIMS overview presentation
The latest overview presentation regarding WikiLIMS can be downloaded from this link (or click the image above).
Mike Cariaso talks “technology without borders”
Mike Cariaso’s presentation on a recent trip to South East Asia where he spent time teaching internet and programming skills in rural villages
Bio-IT World Keynote Slides
Presentation slides from Chris Dagdigian’s talk at the 2009 Bio-IT World
Trends from the Trenches 2008 Presentation
As promised, below is a link to the PDF version of the “Trends from the Trenches” talk that I rushed through at the 2008 Harvard Biomedical HPC Leadership summit: 2008-Trends-from-the-trenches.pdf
Talk slides from 2008 OSGC event
Chris Dagdigian has posted his talk slides from the 2008 OSGC meeting including “LSF & SGE”, “Fun with SGE XML” and “SGE and Amazon EC2″.
SGE 6.2beta ‘unboxing’ screencast
A video screencast where BioTeam’s Chris Dagdigian walks through the installation of the newly released Grid Engine 6.2beta code.
Bio-IT World Conference Presentations
Download links for the presentations by Chris Dagdigian and Chris Dwan at the 2008 Bio IT World Conference & Expo
“Trends from the Trenches” talk @ Bio-IT World 2008
As part of the 2008 Bio-IT World Expo and Conference, Chris Dagdigian will present an updated version of his well received “Trends from the Trenches” talk first presented at the 2007 Harvard Biomedical HPC Leadership Summit. From the abstract: This talk will review some of the BioTeam’s recent work with biotech, pharmaceutical, government and enterprise [...]
SGE Video Tips: Portable Grid Engine
A short video showing how to use IP Aliasing to reliably run Grid Engine on laptop devices that may frequently operate in dynamic networking environments.
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 ...