Using Apple Siri To Orchestrate Experiments On The Cloud
Apple Siri used to voice-control a cloud-based scientific analysis pipeline
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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
Inquiry Cluster Admin Slides
I recently took a trip to Kolkata, India to train users and administrators of an Apple / Inquiry compute cluster there. The slides I developed for that trip may be of general interest, and so I’m sharing them here. The intent of these slides is to provide an overview of the administrative tools and systems [...]
Dec 21, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post
Setting up LOM on an Apple XServe from the command line
Apple provides a GUI for setting up the IP address and authentication information on the LOM. The problem, for me, with using a GUI for something like this is that it’s nearly impossible to script and automate. When I’m setting up a cluster of even a dozen nodes, going through a remote desktop to a GUI becomes intolerable in a hurry. This post shares my recipe for getting the LOM ports on the network and accessible, using only the command line.
Dec 03, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post
Binding Apple’s Open Directory from the Command Line
Here is a trick I use a couple of times a month to get finicky compute nodes in a Apple compute clusters to correctly bind to their LDAP / Open Directory master. This started working as of OS X 10.4, and to my knowledge it still works as of OS X 10.6.1. Bioteam uses a [...]
Apple OS X 10.5 launchd scripts for Grid Engine
William Van Etten has produced new scripts for the Apple OS X “Launchd” framework used by Mac OS X 10.5 “Leopard” systems. Moving forward it seems that Apple eventually intends to phase out the SystemStarter methods for starting/stopping daemons and services in favor of the newer launchd mechanisms. A Wiki entry over at http://gridengine.info explains [...]
Mar 04, 2008 | 2 comments | View Post
Workgroup Server for Bioinformatics
A demonstration of a shared iNquiry server on a single 8 core system as an alternative to clustering.
Jul 27, 2007 | 0 comments | View Post
Workgroup server for Next-Gen Sequencing
Bill Van Etten spoke at the ISMB 2007 meeting about next-generation sequencing and the use of a single 8 core system plus RAID array as an alternative to a cluster.
Jul 27, 2007 | 0 comments | View Post
2004: Mac OS X Clustering for Informatics
Exploring the building, administration and use of clusters for the performance of scientific research.
Dec 01, 2004 | 0 comments | View Post
