At this year’s Supercomputing event, Ellexus CEO Rosemary Francis is part of a BoF titled ‘Analysing parallel I/O’. Parallel application I/O performance often does not meet user expectations. Additionally, slight access pattern modifications may lead to significant changes in performance due to complex interactions between hardware and
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Ellexus CEO and founder Dr Rosemary Francis will be giving a joint presentation with the Sanger Institute at the upcoming Amazon Web Services conference for Healthcare and Life Sciences involved in HPC. The talk is titled: ‘Accelerating cloud-based genomics pipelines through I/O profiling for analysis of over
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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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