All Posts Tagged With: "ec2"

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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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Preliminary EBS performance on Amazon Compute Cluster cc1.4xlarge instance types

Post Update History: July 13th – Original post July 14th – More results from cc1.4xlarge single-disk & initial results from c1.xlarge instance type, uploaded new version of the raw data spreadsheet to Google Docs. Updated all graphs. July 19th – Lots more data (including ephemeral storage) added to the raw data spreadsheet on Google Docs [...]

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13Jul2010 | 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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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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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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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 [...]

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10Sep2008 | chrisdag | 0 comments | Continued
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Integrating UniCluster Express with Amazon EC2

Chris Dagdigian recently test-drove Univa UD’s UniCluster Express, integrated it with the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).

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15Jul2008 | blogadmin | 0 comments | Continued