Category: Screencasts

StarCluster on AWS Spot Instances Screencast

StarCluster on AWS Spot Instances Screencast

Screencast recording showing how easy it is to use AWS spot instances with StarCluster

Dude, you got some Chef in my StarCluster!

Dude, you got some Chef in my StarCluster!

Screencast recording showing how BioTeam uses MIT StarCluster integrated with OpsCode Chef

Coffeeshop Cloud Orchestration

Coffeeshop Cloud Orchestration

Summary: This is a quick blog post to highlight the types of projects I love working on. In this case we are standing up a dedicated Chef Server on the cloud and using it to orchestrate cloud systems. Sounds boring, right? The cool bit is that we are not doing any of the time-wasting actions [...]

Amazon VPC Deployment Screencast

Amazon VPC Deployment Screencast

Video screencasts showing how to setup and deploy a Juniper SSG-5 device for use with the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) service

Grid Engine 6.2 on Mac OS X

Grid Engine 6.2 on Mac OS X

Installing Grid Engine 6.x on modern versions of Mac OS X (client and server) As of early 2010, Grid Engine is effectively not installable out of the box on modern version of Mac OS X. We have seen this recently with server and client versions of OS X 10.5.* as well as the new Snow [...]

SGE 6.2beta ‘unboxing’ screencast

SGE 6.2beta ‘unboxing’ screencast

A video screencast where BioTeam’s Chris Dagdigian walks through the installation of the newly released Grid Engine 6.2beta code.

Chris Dwan

Bio-IT World Conference Presentations

Download links for the presentations by Chris Dagdigian and Chris Dwan at the 2008 Bio IT World Conference & Expo

SGE Video Tips: Portable Grid Engine

SGE Video Tips: Portable Grid Engine

A short video showing how to use IP Aliasing to reliably run Grid Engine on laptop devices that may frequently operate in dynamic networking environments.

SGE Video Tips: Simple FairShare

SGE Video Tips: Simple FairShare

Short video guide to configuring a Grid Engine “all users treated equally” fairshare resource allocation and scheduling policy. This is a soundless screen recording.

Bioinformatics @ Greythumb, with video

Bioinformatics @ Greythumb, with video

Chris Dwan delivers a very informal talk on HPC and bioinformatics at a greythumb.org meetingin Cambridge, MA.