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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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Epigenomics & massively parallel sequencing

Masako Suzuki, DVM PhD  from the Center for Epigenomics, Department of Genetics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York recently gave a presentation at the 2009 “Next Generation Sequencing Data Analysis” meeting held in Providence, RI.
The talk was called “Epigenomic analysis using massively-parallel sequencing”, the presentation slides can be downloaded here:

Epigenomic analysis using [...]

28Sep2009 | chrisdag | 0 comments | Continued
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BioTeam Group Photo

29Apr2009 | chrisdag | 0 comments | Continued
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Big Storage

82 terabyte desktop folder, originally uploaded by ChrisDag.

This screencap is from my Apple laptop; it’s a NFS mount to a *really big* folder hosted on the network.
~90 terabytes of storage in a single namespace/folder costs a million dollars or more if you go with the Tier 1 vendors and have to pay for a backup [...]

17Sep2008 | chrisdag | 0 comments | Continued
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US Roadshow: “Storage for Life Sciences”

Isilon Systems is doing a series of roadshows and talks beginning in early October with locations all over the east and west coasts of the USA.
BioTeam is participating in the event series by giving a talk on “Storage for Life Sciences” – our part of the presentation is not meant to be vendor-specific so it [...]

10Sep2008 | chrisdag | 0 comments | Continued
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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″.

19May2008 | blogadmin | 0 comments | Continued
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The Cloud, on NPR

Yes, the Cloud is hot. We just listened to a brief, non-technical piece on Cloud Computing on National Public Radio:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90180142&ft=1&f=1019
The issues they touch on include security, using the Cloud to compute your genealogy, and how the consumer has access to super-computation for the first time.

5May2008 | briano | 1 comment | Continued