In October, I went to the Star Alliance annual meet up. There were some great talks and discussion from Texas Advanced Computing Centre (TACC) staff, vendors and industry heavyweights. Being Texas, the audience mainly comprised oil and gas companies, but at TACC they have range of applications.
Read more →Monthly archive for October 2018
Ellexus CEO and founder Dr Rosemary Francis will be giving a joint presentation with the Sanger Institute at the upcoming Amazon Web Services conference for Healthcare and Life Sciences involved in HPC. The talk is titled: ‘Accelerating cloud-based genomics pipelines through I/O profiling for analysis of over
Read more →
The use of containers in high performance computing is growing, particularly Singularity. Developers need to work in reproducible environments that they design themselves and move from platform to platform. However, the faster the super computer, the more problems can arise if the contents are not performing as they
Read more →
As a forerunner in the world’s fight against cancer and genetic diseases, the Sanger Institute also has to be a trendsetter in the field of High-Performance Computing. To this end, the institute uses a wide variety of tools to profile and optimise their genome pipelines, including Ellexus
Read more →