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September Cloud Training in California

chrisdag — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 13:34:53 +0000

Date: September 17-18 2011

Location: Hilton La Jolla Torrey Pines, La Jolla, CA

More Info/Registration: (link)

Posting this here so that it ends up in our “Events” RSS feed. The next iteration of our Amazon Web Services for Science & Engineering class will be happening in the San Diego area in September.

NHGRI Cloud Workshop Slides

chrisdag — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 14:30:11 +0000

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 can be found below.

CHI XGEN Short Course Slides

chrisdag — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 23:46:54 +0000

As promised, here are the PDF talk slides from the sessions presented at our Short Course on Data Management Strategies for Next-Generation DNA Sequencing — part of the XGEN Congress held in San Diego.

Slides from 2010 AIRI Petabyte Challenge Meeting

chrisdag — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 17:37:18 +0000

As promised, talk slides from the presentation made at the 2010 AIRI Petabyte Challenge meeting are posted below.

Click on the image or this link to download the slides.

Harvard FAS talk on high speed interconnects for commodity HPC systems

chrisdag — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:25:46 +0000

BioTeam Note: This is not a bioteam event or talk, we are posting the event details here because we can’t find the official online URL and the BAMBCT mailing list archives are not open to the public. This post gives us a way to help promote/mention the event online…

Harvard HPC Seminar Series – open to all

To Infiniband and Beyond: High Speed Interconnects in Commodity HPC Clusters

Theresa Kaltz, PhD, High Performance Technical Computing, FAS, Harvard

1-2pm, Thursday December 3rd, 2009

Harvard University Science Center, Room 110,
1 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA

Abstract:

Due to the wide availability and low cost of high speed networking,
commodity clusters have become the de facto standard for building high
performance parallel computing systems. This talk will introduce the
leading technology for high speed interconnects called Infiniband and
compare its deployment and performance to Ethernet. In addition, some
emerging interconnect technologies and trends in cluster networking will be
discussed.

Bio:

Teresa Kaltz is a Senior Research Associate in FAS IT Research Computing.
She has a PhD in aerospace engineering and a BS in chemical engineering.
After graduation she worked at Lawrence Berkley Lab and then spent eight
years in the High Performance Computing division at Hewlett Packard. She has
expertise in parallel programming, performance analysis and high speed
cluster networks. She joined Harvard in September of 2008

Cloud Computing for Life Sciences Webinar

blogadmin — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:17:39 +0000

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 and industry organizations face immense challenges in building and maintaining the appropriate HPC and IT infrastructure to handle and analyze the data. Cloud computing offers a promising solution for many organizations, removing the administrative burden and expediting workflows. This webinar presents experts in setting up cloud computing resources and users who can already testify to the benefits of cloud computing.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND

IT and Informatics professionals involved in cloud computing and HPC
Software vendors providing solutions for handling and analyzing cloud computing data
Life Sciences professionals interested in learning more about HPC, IT infrastructure, and cloud computing

KEY LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Understand the challenges in building and maintaining the appropriate HPC and IT infrastructure to handle and analyze data
Preview some of the innovative cloud computing solutions used to analyze and interpret data
Apply the benefits of cloud computing and discuss the relevance to your organization’s scientific and/or business needs

Next Generation Sequencing Data Analysis

blogadmin — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:11:53 +0000

On September 20th 2009, BioTeam will be hosting a pre-conference workshop on Data Management & Storage issues for Next-Gen sequencing shops in conjunction with the 2009 “Next Generation Sequencing Data Analysis” conference hosted by CHI:

More info:

http://www.healthtech.com/sda?c=6910

Grid Engine & Amazon EC2

chrisdag — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 14:10:43 +0000

I delivered the following presentation at the 2009 Sun HPC Workshop where Grid Engine had a track of it’s own. The talk was video taped so we’ll try to get a screencast/video of the presentation online as soon as we can.

Slide download link: 2009 Grid Engine & Amazon EC2

2009 Grid Engine Workshop in Germany

chrisdag — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:57:54 +0000

2009 Sun HPC Workshop

September 7-10, 2009

Regensburg, Germany

The SGE Workshop returns to Regensburg, now operating as a conference track within the 2009 Sun HPC Workshop event.

Go here for details & registration:

http://hpcworkshop.com/

Pictures I took at the 2007 event:

Short talk at Amazon AWS event in NYC on May 28th

chrisdag — Tue, 26 May 2009 14:32:27 +0000

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, Amazon Web Services 2:50-3:10 Break 3:10-3:50 Customer Presentations: Sam Lessin, CEO, drop.io Dan Gill, VP Business Development, Gotuit Chris Dagdigian, Founding Partner, BioTeam Brian Adams, Co-Founder and CTO, Admeld 3:50-4:10 Customer Q&A 4:10-4:50 Architecting Cloud Apps – Matt Tavis, Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services 4:50-5:00 Closing Statements 5:00-7:00 Networking Reception + Solutions Corner Expo

FreedomOSS, RightScale, SOASTA, Pentaho and Kaavo will be the vendors in the Solutions corner.