All Posts Tagged With: "cloud computing"
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.
Maximizing Utility on the Cloud
For the 2009 BioIT World Conference in Europe I was invited with short notice to give a 60 minute talk centering on practical Cloud approaches for life science organizations. The talk was not really technical in nature and had to hit a huge number of topic areas as well. Overall feedback was positive and a [...]
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.
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, [...]
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.
Instead of spending 20 minutes to format an ext3 volume every time you need one, you could just snapshot a ...
Let me add a few remarks about Ext3 as well.
The reason we usually recommend Ext3 instead of XFS is because ...
I'm using these slides to tune SGE 6.2 @ European Space Agency, thanks a lot! 
Great post.
Can you also try our native scale out NFS protocol? Next 3.1 release of Gluster will include it ...
So far my mental architecture is shaping up to be something like this:
Use the ephemeral disks for scratch space and ...
This shows that on-demand HPC still has a ways to go, it is very unfortunate that only ext3 is supported ...
We have had sge62u3 working fine in a 10.5 cluster using cron to startup the sge_execd process on clients. Trying ...
Instead of increasing your disk image size, you could have decreased the memory by writing a very short C program ...