Building Open Grid Scheduler on CentOS/RHEL 6.2
How to build Grid Engine 2011.11 from source on 64bit CentOS/RHEL 6.x based systems.
Category: Tech Notes
Smart Storage
BioTeam highlights scientific LIMS software running inside a storage array appliance.
Jan 06, 2012 | 0 comments | View Post
CentOS 6.1, local VMs and Opscode Chef
This blog post is just a quick one-off article to highlight how well Chef plays with non-cloud systems including local virtual machines that BioTeam is running via Citrix XenServer.
Dec 29, 2011 | 0 comments | View Post
Isilon Smart Connect and Linux DNS Servers
How to integrate Isilon Smart Connect load balancing with the Linux Dnsmasq DNS server package.
Sep 08, 2011 | 0 comments | View Post
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.
Aug 24, 2011 | 14 comments | View Post
The cloud is not always the answer
The moral of the story is that clever is not always smart.
Feb 23, 2011 | 4 comments | View Post
OpenVPN & Tunnelblick for small business
How BioTeam protects employees who need a safe harbor while working via increasingly hostile public networks.
Feb 22, 2011 | 2 comments | View Post
How to resize an Amazon EC2 AMI when boot disk is on EBS
Note Screwing around with the boot volume is part of our regular “explore around the edges” work before we get serious with how we are going to configure and orchestrate the new systems. The boot volume in this scenario does not have PV driver support and thus will perform slower than the actual ephemeral storage. [...]
Jul 14, 2010 | 4 comments | View Post
PGP Universal Server 3 and XenServer 5.5
Background BioTeam is a Massachusetts-based “virtual” company in that all of our employees work from home when not traveling on business. Being from Massachusetts is actually important because as of March 31st, 2010 the state has passed a fairly strict set of laws concerning how companies handle digital data. Without going into the details of [...]
Apr 13, 2010 | 4 comments | View Post
Cluster user training
On the same trip to India, I found myself in the position of delivering a training session to a room with incredibly varied backgrounds and skill levels. Some folks had never edited a file on the Unix command line before. Others just wanted to know where MPICH was installed. This set of slides goes from [...]
Dec 21, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post
