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...
In part two of the Berman and Gardner interview (Part 1 here) the discussion turns to storage technology options, fast networking for life sciences, and diversifying choices in processors from Intel, AMD, and IBM, , . They consider technology examples and issues of power utilization, raw...
In the March 1st issue of HPCwire, BioTeam's Ari Berman and Aaron Gardner are featured in part 1 of a wide-ranging discussion about trends in High-Performance Computing. Their discussion covers AI, Analytics, and insights into leading strengths and capabilities of premiere cloud platforms. They review...
Chris Dagdigian, BioTeam's Co-founder and Senior Director of Infrastructure, recently gave a presentation at NEREN's “Bridging the Gap – Research Facilitation” seminar hosted by OSHEAN in Cambridge, MA. The event as a whole was focused on the challenges associated with supporting regional collaboration and research computing. Chris' presentation uses BioTeam's experiences supporting Life...
Towards the end of last year BioTeam was honored to receive an NIH Director's award as part of a team that helped establish the first African Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics. The team worked with NIAID and the University of Sciences, Techniques, and Technology (USTTB) in Bamako,...
BioTeam's Ari Berman was recently interviewed by HPC Wire's John Russell about how customers in the Life Sciences are utilizing High Performance Computing (HPC) and how that usage might evolve over the course of 2017. There's a lot of insight and background in the full article on...
Managing and analyzing one genome's worth of data is no trivial task, when you are working towards sequencing and analyzing 10,000 genomes and making this data broadly available then a whole new set of challenges arise. BioTeam has been working on just such a project...
BioTeam Inc. announces the availability of BioTeam MiniLIMS for Ion Torrent Personal Genome Machine (PGM)....
Over the past few years, many life science organizations have dabbled in cloud computing and explored infrastructure-as-a-service, with varying degrees of enthusiasm and commitment. But one Connecticut company has decided to go for broke—transferring its entire IT infrastructure onto the Amazon cloud. ...
A PDF version of the MiniLims poster presented at the 2011 AGBT meeting is now available....