Consulting Brief: ParallelCluster Guardrails When Prod Is Shared
Update 17-Oct-2026: the client’s SCP now lets our ParallelCluster operator role delete CloudWatch alarms and dashboards, so our clusters run with monitoring on again. See the update section. TL;DR It is counterintuitive, but it is safer to let AWS ParallelCluster deploy itself with broad permissions than to hand it pre-made roles. When ParallelCluster creates its […]
Modernizing Research HPC Authentication: Bridging Enterprise Identity and AWS ParallelCluster
Modern research institutions often hit a wall when modernizing access to high-performance computing environments. The compute infrastructure is already in place. Enterprise identity systems are already established. The challenge is enabling those systems to work together securely without creating friction for researchers or compromising institutional security requirements. BioTeam recently helped a major federal research institution […]
AI Readiness Assessment and Modernization Roadmap for Biomedical Data Infrastructure
Summary BioTeam partnered with a biomedical research institution within the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to assess its existing data infrastructure and develop a strategic roadmap for integrating artificial intelligence capabilities into its large-scale biomedical data repositories and services. As a steward of globally significant biomedical data resources, the organization sought to ensure its […]