Category: Employee Posts

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

Practical Cloud & Workflow Orchestration

Practical Cloud & Workflow Orchestration

Presentation slides from our talk at the 2011 Amazon Web Services Genomics.

Mapping Informatics to the Cloud

Mapping Informatics to the Cloud

Talk slides from a presentation called “Mapping Informatics to the Cloud” as delivered at the 2011 BioITWorld ‘Beyond the Cloud’ meeting

Isilon Smart Connect and Linux DNS Servers

Isilon Smart Connect and Linux DNS Servers

How to integrate Isilon Smart Connect load balancing with the Linux Dnsmasq DNS server package.

Backblaze Performance

Backblaze Performance

First-pass performance data from the $12,000 135TB backblaze 2.0 storage pod project.

Real World Backblaze Costs

Real World Backblaze Costs

Our real-world, actual costs for building the 135 terabyte Backblaze 2.0 storage pod.

Why we built a Backblaze

Why we built a Backblaze

After the last blog post explaining all of the sensible reasons for why you should never build a backblaze pod it’s time now to talk about why we did decide to build one.

Accuracy Grand Challenge

Accuracy Grand Challenge

We have been working behind the scenes with our friends at Life Technologies since the release of the awesome semi-conductor based sequencing machine the Ion Torrent PGM. Life Tech is putting up $1M prizes in a series of Grand Challenges. Recently we recorded a short video explaining how Grand Challenge solvers can access the competition [...]

Backblaze Storage Pod

Backblaze Storage Pod

102 usable terabytes for $12,000. Disruptively cheap DIY storage. Should you care?

Why you should never build a backblaze pod

Why you should never build a backblaze pod

Sobriety time. Here are all the reasons why you SHOULD NOT roll your own backblaze storage pod.

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