It’s possible to uncover or create some really knotty problems when porting applications to a new environment, whether that’s on-premise or in the cloud. More and more organisations are looking to move to the new Arm v8 server so we decided to take a look at what
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Mistral is a lightweight tool that can be run in production, so you can run Mistral across all your unit tests to look for bad I/O patterns. The easiest way to do that is with a wrapper script that will let you toggle Mistral on and off
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Genomics pipelines can be really interested to monitor from an I/O perspective. They’re normally highly tuned, but – even so – real improvements can be made that can only be uncovered through I/O profiling. We decided to team up with Alces Flight to quickly create an HPC
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We’re pleased to announce that we have release versions of our flagship tools Mistral, Breeze and Healthcheck on the Arm v8-A architecture. The move is part of our strategy to provide cross-platform support that gives engineers a uniform tooling experience across different hardware platforms. We have also announced
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Containers such as Docker containers can be a brilliant tool. But how do you know that what you’ve put inside will run in a new environment? Is the application it contains wasting time – and therefore money – carrying out bad I/O? And what does it really
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