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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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Local storage performance of AWS cluster compute instances

Lots more data collected over the weekend as we were finally able to run bonnie++ against the local boot disk as well as single and striped versions of the ephermeral storage volumes that come along with every cc1.4xlarge instance type. Key Results: Performance of the root/boot disk is way slower than any other type of [...]

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19Jul2010 | chrisdag | 0 comments | Continued
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Grid Engine on the new Amazon Compute Cluster Instances

{ crossposted to blog.bioteam.net and gridengine.info } Amazon made a very important announcement today, releasing new EC2 server types and network configurations that significantly enhance the Amazon AWS environment for people who are interested in cluster computing, compute farming and high performance computing (HPC) on the cloud. The announcement is here for those who are [...]

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13Jul2010 | 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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NHGRI Cloud Workshop Slides

NHGRI (the kind folks behind http://www.genome.gov) recently hosted an internal cloud workshop for investigators, directors, program managers and other folks involved in research, funding & grant structures. I was invited to participate and give a short talk to open the morning session that concentrated on cloud technical issues. The slide deck from my ~20min talk [...]

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1Apr2010 | 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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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 [...]

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16Oct2009 | chrisdag | 1 comment | Continued
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Cloud Computing for Life Sciences Webinar

Cloud Computing for Life Sciences  – Tuesday October 27 2009 Session dates: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 Starting time: 1:00 pm, GMT -04:00, Eastern Daylight Time (New York) Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes Session Fee: $295 (Note: BioTeam did not realize that there would be a charge for this event when we agreed to participate) OVERVIEW [...]

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11Sep2009 | blogadmin | 2 comments | Continued
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Grid Engine & Amazon EC2

Talk slides from 2009 Sun HPC Workshop in Germany. This was my “Grid Engine & Amazon EC2″ talk.

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9Sep2009 | chrisdag | 2 comments | Continued
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