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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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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 slides goes from [...]

21Dec2009 | cdwan | 0 comments | Continued
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Inquiry Cluster Admin Slides

I recently took a trip to Kolkata, India to train users and administrators of an Apple / Inquiry compute cluster there. The slides I developed for that trip may be of general interest, and so I’m sharing them here. The intent of these slides is to provide an overview of the administrative tools and systems [...]

21Dec2009 | cdwan | 0 comments | Continued
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Setting up LOM on an Apple XServe from the command line

Apple provides a GUI for setting up the IP address and authentication information on the LOM. The problem, for me, with using a GUI for something like this is that it’s nearly impossible to script and automate. When I’m setting up a cluster of even a dozen nodes, going through a remote desktop to a GUI becomes intolerable in a hurry. This post shares my recipe for getting the LOM ports on the network and accessible, using only the command line.

3Dec2009 | cdwan | 0 comments | Continued
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Great talk on hadoop, bioinformatics and the cloud

Just passing along the URL to a pretty informative video showing Deepak Singh’s talk at a recent NYC area Hadoop World conference. The presentation contains quite a bit of bioinformatics/IT background that some readers here may already know but the Hadoop and large-scale dataset processing content is really quite interesting. If you work at the [...]

2Dec2009 | chrisdag | 0 comments | Continued
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