All Posts Tagged With: "amazon cloud"

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Playing with NFS & GlusterFS on Amazon cc1.4xlarge EC2 instance types

Early single-client tests of shared ephemeral storage via NFS and parallel GlusterFS We here at BioTeam have been kicking tires and generally exploring around the edges of the new Amazon cc1.4xlarge “compute cluster” EC2 instance types. Much of our experimentation has been centered around simplistic benchmarking techniques as a way of slowly zeroing in on [...]

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29Jul2010 | chrisdag | 5 comments | Continued
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Boot, ephemeral & EBS storage performance on amazon cc1.4xlarge instance types

Backstory For background and summary writeups of all the various blog posts we have dealing with the new Amazon EC2 “compute cluster” cc1.4xlarge instance types please refer to this summary page: http://blog.bioteam.net/2010/07/19/exploring-the-new-aws-compute-cluster-ec2-instances/? Related post We talked about the performance of the boot and ephemeral storage in this post: http://blog.bioteam.net/2010/07/19/local-storage-performance-of-aws-cluster-compute-instances/? This post In this post I’ve finally collected [...]

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20Jul2010 | chrisdag | 0 comments | Continued
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Exploring the new AWS Compute Cluster EC2 Instances

Note: Depending on how you found this post, it might be helpful to understand our own personal & professional biases. We are bioinformatics and HPC types specializing in life sciences, not people trying to build the next twitter or facebook. What we care about when it comes to AWS performance may not be what YOU [...]

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19Jul2010 | chrisdag | 0 comments | Continued
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BioITWorld Cloud Workshop – Talk Slides

Click on the graphic down below to download the PDF talk slides. This was a short 30 minute talk starting off the 2010 BioITWorld Cloud Computing Workshop. Content-wise it’s very similar to my NHGRI meeting slides except I added more introductory material about cloud segments and definitions.

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20Apr2010 | chrisdag | 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 [...]

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2Dec2009 | chrisdag | 0 comments | Continued
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Slides from the Amazon AWS 2009 StartUp Event

Talk slides from Chris Dagdigian’s presentation “Utility Computing for Cynics” at the 2009 NYC stop of the Amazon AWS StartUp Tour can be downloaded here: 2009-NYC-AWS-BioTeam A few pictures from the event are posted below. It was a great event, standing room only for all of the presentations.

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1Jun2009 | chrisdag | 0 comments | Continued
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Short talk at Amazon AWS event in NYC on May 28th

BioTeam consultant Chris Dagdigian will be giving a short (~10 minutes or so) presentation at the NYC stop for the 2009 Amazon AWS Start-up Tour. The tour details and dates are here: http://aws.amazon.com/startupproject/ The agenda for the May 28th event is: 1:00-2:00 Doors Open 2:00-2:10 Opening Statements 2:10-2:50 AWS Overview – Adam Selipsky, Vice President, [...]

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26May2009 | chrisdag | 0 comments | Continued
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Sunny Skies for Compute Cloud

Buying CPUs by the hour is back. Marketing apparently decided that ‘On Demand’ sounds pushy and ‘Utility’ and ‘Grid’ are too rigid. This time it will be called a ‘Cloud’, and it will be running inside Amazon.com.

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13Nov2007 | blogadmin | 0 comments | Continued