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PGP Universal Server 3 and XenServer 5.5

Background BioTeam is a Massachusetts-based “virtual” company in that all of our employees work from home when not traveling on business. Being from Massachusetts is actually important because as of March 31st, 2010 the state has passed a fairly strict set of laws concerning how companies handle digital data. Without going into the details of [...]

13Apr2010 | chrisdag | 0 comments | Continued
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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 [...]

1Apr2010 | chrisdag | 0 comments | Continued
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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.

15Mar2010 | chrisdag | 0 comments | Continued
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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 needed help. Most [...]

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 [...]

7Feb2010 | chrisdag | 22 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, [...]

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 group leader found [...]

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 very real – [...]

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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