We recently attended a talk at the Texas Advanced Computing Centre (TACC) about Frontera, the centre’s next generation high performance computing (HPC) machine. Frontera will be operational in 2019 and will consume almost 6MW of power at its peak – the equivalent of 5,000 Texas homes or
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Using the I/O profiling tools from Ellexus, the Wellcome Sanger Institute has saved both time and money during a highly complex and valuable project. As a result of the work with Ellexus, the Institute discovered that it could save a significant 10% of project costs by choosing
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This article was first published on InsideHPC. We can all admit to being pressured into investing in a new solution as soon as it becomes available. We want to be the fastest, the best-informed, the best-equipped. However, sometimes there can be a real cost benefit to mulling
Read more →I/O problems can manifest as performance issues or service outages. A lot of the time it helps to see what the disk is doing. Here are some nice free commandline tools that can help you to troubleshoot problems. iostat iostat reads from the /proc file system to
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Thank you to all our customers and partners for making 2018 such an exciting. game-changing year for Ellexus. We have achieved a lot this year and look forward to bringing you more innovations in 2019. Next year, we will focus on evolving our tools and adding to
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