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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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Wrap up on Haiti

I’ve returned to something approximating a normal routine after the trip to Haiti. I’ll admit to the usual disappointment that “everything,” didn’t change. By no means did we fix the country, or even come close (not that such was ever our intent). As on previous trips, we helped a few individuals who [...]

11Feb2010 | cdwan | 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 Leopard [...]

7Feb2010 | chrisdag | 7 comments | Continued
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Safely back to the Dominican

We said our goodbyes this morning, gave away most of our supplies (blankets, sleeping pads, spare clothing, water bottles, etc) to the families still sleeping outdoors in the neighborhood near the clinic, and made our way to the border with the Dominican.
We drove the FHM vans all the way through to the Dominican Republic, stopped [...]

6Feb2010 | cdwan | 0 comments | Continued
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Thursday clinic

Another interesting day is wrapping up down here. We had yet another record breaking day – with 315 patients. This is an all time single day record for Family Health Ministries. Perhaps more interesting, we broke the kilo-patient barrier with our week’s total well over 1,000.
We’re making do with supplies. Our [...]

4Feb2010 | cdwan | 0 comments | Continued
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State of the city

We just returned from a drive around Cite Soleil and downtown. The devastation there is much, much worse than what we’ve been seeing around the clinic. We’ve basically been in a suburb – the houses are spaced a bit further apart and two story buildings were rare. Therefore, while the devastation is [...]

3Feb2010 | cdwan | 0 comments | Continued
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Tuesday, in Haiti

This will be a quick update, because I suspect that I would be asleep long before I could even summarize our entire trip.
We’re in the ‘Blanchard’ or ‘Terre Noir’ neighborhood, perhaps a mile north of Cite Soleil – in Port au Prince. The clinic building where we are working survived the earthquake in remarkably [...]

2Feb2010 | cdwan | 0 comments | Continued
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Supplies

I write this from JFK airport in New York, having successfully gotten out of the house at 5am carrying four duffel bags containing just under 200lbs of (mostly) donated supplies. Our clothing and personal gear are in our carry on luggage.
I remain overwhelmed by the deep vein of compassion and generosity we have tapped. [...]

29Jan2010 | cdwan | 1 comment | Continued
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Supporting Haiti

On Friday the 29th of January, I will be taking a week’s leave of absence from my day to day responsibilities at Bioteam and traveling to Haiti with a medical relief team.
I’ll be going with a group called Family Health Ministries. We’ll go overland through the Dominican Republic to a clinic where my wife [...]

26Jan2010 | cdwan | 3 comments | Continued
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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 [...]

21Dec2009 | cdwan | 0 comments | Continued
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