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
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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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I was recently asked whether it was possible to work out which resources will be used by an application before it runs. In theory, it is not possible to do that without solving the halting problem, but in real life applications often do the same thing over
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Ellexus recently released it’s shiny new Traffic Light View for both Breeze and Mistral, including with the Healthcheck report. To help users get the most from this new way to uncover good and bad I/O, we’ve put together a whitepaper. This paper introduces how an organisation can
Read more →The software tool OpenFOAM is used extensively in the HPC sector to create simulations. It includes hundreds of applications that can be extended and customised, which means it is often used to create simulations in many industries and academic, research and scientific institutions. However, it is widely
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