All Posts Tagged With: "cloud"

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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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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 [...]

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
With the surge in complex life science data, academic [...]

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.

9Sep2009 | chrisdag | 2 comments | Continued
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C&EN on Pharma Cloud Computing

Chemical & Engineering News covers emerging use of the cloud by pharma companies, BioTeam gets mentioned along with a quote from Chris Dagdigian.
Excerpt:
“IT MAY NO LONGER BE FAIR to characterize large pharmaceutical firms as late adopters of information technology (IT).
Having spent the past five years catching up to other industries in the deployment of enterprise [...]

1Jun2009 | blogadmin | 0 comments | Continued
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UniCluster Express & Amazon EC2 Webinar

I did a project for Univa UD where I documented the steps required to get their product integrated into the Amazon EC2 elastic compute cloud. That is the whitepaper referred to in the marketing materials below.
I’ve agreed to participate in a webinar and answer questions about the project, click on through for the full event [...]

10Sep2008 | chrisdag | 0 comments | Continued
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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.

5May2008 | briano | 1 comment | Continued