SuperComputing 2017 was big, busy and full of new ideas. The Ellexus team had back-to-back meetings with customers and partners, who each brought new ideas and challenges to discussions. The global high performance computing industry is growing at a fast pace, buoyed by scientific advances and the
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Recently the Ellexus team got the chance to visit the awesome work at Iotic Labs in Cambridge. We used Breeze to profile their infrastructure and came up with some really interesting results. It’s great for us to be able to see our tools in action. Iotic labs
Read more →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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