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
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This blog has been put together by Ellexus CEO Dr Rosemary Francis, Gaurav Kaul, Professional Services Senior Consultant HPC at AWS and Dario LaPorta, Senior Consultant HPC at AWS. A customer of AWS wanted to scale their machine learning workload to hundreds of thousands of machine instances.
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Not many start-ups have the chance to give direct advice to those at the top, but Ellexus CEO Rosemary Francis is no shrinking violet. Last week, St John’s Innovation Centre was visited by the EU select committee of the House of Lords and Rosemary was one of
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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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Ellexus is the I/O profiling company and we are often asked how our tools compare to Darshan. Darshan is a popular open source tool for profiling MPI I/O in high performance computing environments. In this comparison we look at some of the benefits of Darshan and how
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