Chris Dagdigian
Co-Founder and Senior Principal Consultant
Contact Information
Email: chris@bioteam.net
M: +1.617.877.5498
Intro:
Bioinformaticist-gone-bad Chris Dagdigian has spent much of the last 20 years designing, building, fixing, and improving research-focused HPC and IT systems for use in demanding production computing environments. He occasionally is known to blog, tweet, and speak about industry trends and best practices.
Focus Areas:
- AWS ParallelCluster
- Scientific & Technical Assessments
- RFP/RFI assistance
- Vendor selection, procurement & purchase assistance
- High Performance Computing (HPC)
- Technical training, technical writing & knowledge transfer
- Amazon Web Services
- Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP)
- Science DMZs
- Cloud architecture design & implementation
- Petascale NAS & object storage design, deploy, refresh/replace
- Scientific application integration
Tools:
- Python
- Ansible
- Terraform
- CloudFormation
- Grid Engine and Slurm HPC schedulers
- Amazon Web Services
Background
Formerly of Blackstone Computing and Genetics Institute, Dagdigian specializes in research computing and infrastructure technology issues in the life sciences.
Personal Interests:
I enjoy putting down the keyboard and getting outside as often as possible. I’ve built a home office setup in Western Maine complete with a kit-built log cabin and 20ft Yurt. The eventual goal is to be the only Yurt owner on the east coast with a 10GbE ScienceDMZ.
