Among the dizzying array of launches at this year’s AWS re:Invent conference, two in particular have stood out as being potential game-changers for HPC on AWS: FSx for Lustre and Elastic Fabric Adapter. At BioTeam, we’ve been building cloud-based HPC systems for life sciences for a...
BioTeam, Inc. is pleased to announce it will be hosting RSA's "Cyber Risk Qualification Workshop" event, presented by RSA, RiskLens and KPMG, at the Markley Center, located at 1 Summer St., Boston, MA on Wednesday, December 5, 2018 from 1PM to 5:30PM. RSA has announced...
With re:Invent just two weeks away, the HPC team at AWS has released a new product they are calling ParallelCluster to replace their legacy, open-source project CfnCluster. BioTeam has been assembling and orchestrating SGE-based HPC clusters in EC2 for over 10 years, first with StarCluster, then...
Background and Introduction A core use case for many scientists is being able to access their systems and data when they are off-site. With today's ever present security threats, providing a way to enable this remote access in a way that is secure, simple, inexpensive and...
In this post we'll dive into the technical details of how one can expose data in an iRODS zone as S3 object storage. What is Minio? - https://minio.io/ Minio is an open source object storage server with Amazon S3 compatible API. Build cloud-native applications portable across all major...
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...
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...
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...
[rev_slider alias="bio--it-panel-2017"] 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 presentations on a variety of Bio-IT-related topics as part of a moderated panel. These...
There were some interesting questions at 2017's Bio-IT World Town Hall. This is a short clip of the panel discussing the challenges of finding staff with the necessary skills for modern Bio-IT. ...