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88 Terabyte volume

88 Terabyte volume (mine is bigger than yours …)
Originally uploaded by ChrisDag

Big storage is pretty easy these days.
It’s harder when you want single-namespace or single volumes that are upwards of 100 terabytes in size.
It’s even harder when you try to do it with reasonably priced middle-tier products rather than the high end stuff that costs [...]

SGE launchd script maker for Apple OS X 10.5 Leopard

We now have a perl script that will automatically create site-appropriate launchd plist files for Grid Engine - the files are constructed by querying the SGE environment variables and running one of the SGE utility scripts. This may be a more convenient method than downloading our plist files and hand-editing them via the Apple plist editor program.

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″.

Mike Cariaso wins the 23andMe “Win your Genome” contest

Congratulations are in order for Mike who was announced as the winner of the “Win your Genome” contest being run by 23andMe. The announcement can be read online here:
http://spittoon.23andme.com/2008/05/14/and-the-winner-is/

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.