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Re: Benchmarking the Cloud for Genomics

Gary Stiehr — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:05:30 -0000

Thanks for the comment, Nick. They discuss a scenario of transferring the input data with parallel EC2 nodes into S3 directly from EBI (see p.7), which I'd think has a relatively high bandwidth connection to the Internet. The transfer (of the compressed dataset) took 1h15m at about 187 Mb/s and of course you incur EC2 charges for decompressing that data. It wasn't mentioned about how long that decompression took.

Re: Bit.ly v. Google Analytics - An Experiment, Part I

Gary Stiehr — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 11:18:50 -0000

Hi Joe, while I believe I've seen discrepancies between what the two
tools report, I haven't yet looked closely enough to say I have any results.

Re: Can't change information in my Account

Gary Stiehr — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:27:42 -0000

I was on the Admin->Settings page.

Re: Can't change information in my Account

Gary Stiehr — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 23:05:24 -0000

mrredallen, I tried again and this is working for me now. I didn't do anything differently than before. You might want to give it another try as well.

Re: Can't change information in my Account

Gary Stiehr — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 23:04:30 -0000

Giannii, I tried again and this is working for me now. I didn't do anything differently than before.

Re: Bit.ly v. Google Analytics - An Experiment, Part I

Gary Stiehr — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 23:58:34 -0000

Joe, sorry, I found the updates on other posts on your blog.

Re: Bit.ly v. Google Analytics - An Experiment, Part I

Gary Stiehr — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 23:53:56 -0000

Hi Joe, any preliminary results on the bit.ly vs. google analytics experiement?

Re: Scalable Staging of Large Datasets to Many Compute Nodes

Gary Stiehr — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 23:30:44 -0000

In terms of using bittorent, we've done some initial tests with good initial results using rtorrent, which uses a tracker for directing download activity. I think the trackerless variety of bittorrent clients are harder on the network. Although I am not an expert with bittorrent.

How could Xcp help in alleviating the load on the original file server when distributing a large data file to many nodes?

Re: Can't change information in my Account

Gary Stiehr — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 23:04:30 -0000

Hi Giannii, I am experiencing this symptom as well. Has the resolution you put in place been reverted? I am trying to change the "Website URL".

Re: Video- Trust Agents

Gary Stiehr — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:53:32 -0000

much in the same way that one should engage an audience early in a presentation by indicating how it connects to their world(s).

Re: Data produced, analyzed and consumed. The impact of big science

Gary Stiehr — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:35:45 -0000

There is no doubt that things have changed. At The Genome Center at Washington University, we've seen tremendous growth over the last two years or so as the "next-gen" sequencers came online. The dramatically increased disk and computational capacity requirements quickly filled our existing data center and drove us to build our current large scale data center. Originally, we were a big data producer but quickly recognized the benefit of also consuming that data and doing further analysis on it (which resulted in some interesting findings about cancer genomics published in Nature last year). Interestingly, we and other centers may also be able to share that data out through efforts such as caBIG and other data grids. Of course there are a lot of questions to answer before we can do that.

Re: What do you consider a “large file system” and are you worried about fsck times?

Gary Stiehr — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 23:51:41 -0000

See http://www.linkedin.com/ans... for some interesting replies to this question.

Re: TACC's Ranger Cluster

Gary Stiehr — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 00:33:58 -0000

Hi Jay, thanks for the comments. I look forward to seeing the updated page.

Re: TACC's Ranger Cluster

Gary Stiehr — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 01:16:22 -0000

Thanks for the info. It is interesting how much conflicting information there is throughout the various articles. Perhaps some of them were written before the final configuration was decided upon. Although I'd expect TACC's description (13,152 processors) and Sun's description ("over 15,000" processors) to be the closer. Well, what's a couple thousand processors here and there?

I'll have to watch for info on how they've configured the x4500s.