Life in the trenches …
storage + batteries + serial console, originally uploaded by ChrisDag. I spend a lot of time in server rooms these days.
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88 Terabyte volume
88 Terabyte volume (mine is bigger than yours …) Originally uploaded by ChrisDag Big storage is pretty easy these days. It’s harder when you want single-namespace or single volumes that are upwards of 100 terabytes in size. It’s even harder when you try to do it with reasonably priced middle-tier products rather than the high [...]
Sep 02, 2008 | 0 comments | View Post
Illumina/Solexa pipeline w/ Grid Engine
Illumina/Solexa pipeline w/ Grid Engine Originally uploaded by ChrisDag From the trenches @ BioTeam … Illumina (www.illumina.com) is one of a few companies involved in the “next generation” DNA Sequencing race. Each company has has technology that wildly decreases the cost and time involved in large scale genome analysis. Everyone in this space wants to [...]
Sep 02, 2008 | 0 comments | View Post
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.
