Quick Bytes: The Future of Scientific Storage…
Storage is perhaps the number one challenge in scientific computing today. BioTeam’s Chris Dagdigian gives his thoughts on what he believes to be one of the best approaches to scientific storage and how this makes life easier for both the researcher who wants to use the data, and the IT team responsible for ensuring it’s […]
Quick Bytes: Serverless Computing – it’s real…
‘Serverless computing’ is an advance on the ‘Infrastructure as a Service’ paradigm where you create the functions and functionality required for your business need (‘Functions as a Service’) and leave the underlying hardware details to the Cloud provider. This approach entered the mainstream a few years ago through products such as AWS Lambda and has […]
Quick Bytes – Dude, where’s my data? Curators Needed
With lots of talk about the need for data management, is purchasing some software and a storage solution to ‘manage’ your data enough? BioTeam’s Ari Berman, Chris Dagdigian and Karl Gutwin give their perspectives on this issue during Bio-IT World 2018. The original footage was shot as part of the Bioteam Town Hall at Bio-IT World […]
HPC trends in Life Sciences, 2019 – Part 2
The second installment of HPCwire’s 2-part BioTeam interview continues the conversation with Ari Berman, Chris Dagdigian and Aaron Gardner as we take a hard look at AI and deep learning, as well as performance and cost improvements within both cloud and storage. Part 2 delves beyond the AI marketing fever and into the gritty facts […]
HPC trends in Life Sciences, 2019 – Part 1
BioTeam’s Ari Berman, Chris Dagdigian and Aaron Gardner recently sat with HPCWire for an in-depth, two part interview to discuss HPC trends in Life Sciences. Part 1 addresses infrastructure challenges including competitive diversity in CPU and GPU choices, the ubiquitous rise of data lakes and commons, and the state of networking – from optimizing security […]
Quick Bytes – Machine Learning in the life sciences – some caveats
Machine learning is a popular topic in the life sciences these days. A related question cropped up during a panel discussion at BioIT World 2018 and BioTeam’s VP of Consulting, Ari Berman, raised some interesting points and an important caveat for those looking to leverage machine learning in their work.
BioTeam Panel evolves again for Bio-IT World 2018
BioTeam’s end-of-BioIT World session evolved again this year. Having changed in 2017 from Chris Dagdigian’s popular ‘Trends from the Trenches’ solo presentation to a panel of BioTeam consultants, 2018 saw a further change to a Town Hall format with the welcome addition of non-BioTeam perspectives from Tanya Cashorali, co-founder and CEO of TCB Analytics. Bio-IT World […]
Quick Bytes – MPI and HPC Schedulers, dead or alive?
With the growth in the use of cloud environments, are the mainstays of traditional HPC, MPI (Message Passing Interface) and HPC Schedulers such as Grid Engine and SLURM, reaching end of life or will they be with us for a while to come? BioTeam’s Chris Dagdigian gives his perspective on this question during Bio-IT World […]
Quick Bytes – Moving to the Cloud, whose server is it anyway?
Your organization has moved to the cloud, you can now provision servers in seconds, auto-scale at will but whose job is it to care for this cloud infrastructure? IT is responsible for the on-prem infrastructure but who’s responsible for the infrastructure in the cloud? What role should IT play and what role should the end-user, […]
BioTeam Presentations from Bio-IT World 2017
Bio-IT World 2017 4 Videos Chris Dagdigian Cloud Sobriety 13:46 Aaron Gardner Technology Selection 12:50 Ari Berman IT Security 19:10 Adam Kraut IT Leadership 14:11 After many years of Chris Dagdigian wrapping up Bio-IT World with his popular Trends from the Trenches talks, BioTeam adopted a team approach in 2017. Members of BioTeam gave brief […]
