Chris Dagdigian

Chris Dagdigian,

Co-Founder and Senior Director of Infrastructure

Contact Information

Intro:

Bioinformaticist-gone-bad Chris Dagdigian has spent much of the last 15 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.

Location:

Boston, MA and Western Maine

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!

Focus Areas:

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:

Perl
Python
Ruby
Chef
Ansible
Grid Engine
Amazon Web Services

Background

Formerly of Blackstone Computing and Genetics Institute, Dagdigian specializes in research computing and infrastructure technology issues in the life sciences. A supporter of free software and open standards for life science research, he is a founding member of the Bioperl Project, co-founder of the Bioclusters mailing list and serves on the board of directors as Treasurer of the Open Bioinformatics Foundation.