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  1. Tips and tricks for looking after Mistral data in Elastic Search
    21-Feb-20 • • Comments Off on Tips and tricks for looking after Mistral data in Elastic Search
  2. The How, Why and Where of HPC in the Cloud: Understanding the network topology
    9-Feb-20 • • Comments Off on The How, Why and Where of HPC in the Cloud: Understanding the network topology
  3. Video from InsideHPC: I/O architectures and technology, comparing Lustre and Spectrum Scale
    9-Jan-20 • • Comments Off on Video from InsideHPC: I/O architectures and technology, comparing Lustre and Spectrum Scale
  4. New year’s resolutions to prep your work environment
    1-Jan-20 • • Comments Off on New year’s resolutions to prep your work environment
  5. Ellexus: What was great in 2019
    20-Dec-19 • • Comments Off on Ellexus: What was great in 2019
  6. Lifesaving whole genome sequencing could bring HPC to our daily lives
    12-Dec-19 • • Comments Off on Lifesaving whole genome sequencing could bring HPC to our daily lives
  7. v2.13.4 Release notes and manuals
    2-Dec-19 • • Comments Off on v2.13.4 Release notes and manuals
  8. Mistral to feature at the International Parallel Data Systems Workshop at SC19
    31-Oct-19 • • Comments Off on Mistral to feature at the International Parallel Data Systems Workshop at SC19
  9. Video: Mistral demo during POP webinar
    15-Oct-19 • • Comments Off on Video: Mistral demo during POP webinar
  10. Video: Breeze demo during POP webinar
    15-Oct-19 • • Comments Off on Video: Breeze demo during POP webinar
  11. Video: Ellexus I/O best practices
    15-Oct-19 • • Comments Off on Video: Ellexus I/O best practices
  12. Whitepaper: I/O profiling to improve the storage performance at Diamond Light Source on a Univa Grid Engine cluster
    23-Sep-19 • • Comments Off on Whitepaper: I/O profiling to improve the storage performance at Diamond Light Source on a Univa Grid Engine cluster
  13. Whitepaper: EDA in the cloud
    19-Sep-19 • • Comments Off on Whitepaper: EDA in the cloud
  14. POP Webinar: Implementing I/O Best Practices to Improve System Performance with Ellexus
    16-Sep-19 • • Comments Off on POP Webinar: Implementing I/O Best Practices to Improve System Performance with Ellexus
  15. Video: Mistral demo
    15-Sep-19 • • Comments Off on Video: Mistral demo
  16. Video: Breeze demo
    15-Sep-19 • • Comments Off on Video: Breeze demo
  17. Ellexus and AWS CloudWatch provide integrated infrastructure and application monitoring for scientific workloads and ML
    2-Sep-19 • • Comments Off on Ellexus and AWS CloudWatch provide integrated infrastructure and application monitoring for scientific workloads and ML
  18. Breeze is now available on Amazon Marketplace
    22-Aug-19 • • Comments Off on Breeze is now available on Amazon Marketplace
  19. Profiling Nextflow and Singularity: Scalable, reproducible scientific workflows
    21-Aug-19 • • Comments Off on Profiling Nextflow and Singularity: Scalable, reproducible scientific workflows
  20. Supercharging the Ellexus HPC monitoring tools with the Hartree Centre
    1-Aug-19 • • Comments Off on Supercharging the Ellexus HPC monitoring tools with the Hartree Centre
  21. How to optimise the data you collect with Mistral
    22-Jul-19 • • Comments Off on How to optimise the data you collect with Mistral
  22. Whitepaper: I/O profiling to improve DL_POLY, achieving an 8% improvement for molecular dynamics
    26-Jun-19 • • Comments Off on Whitepaper: I/O profiling to improve DL_POLY, achieving an 8% improvement for molecular dynamics
  23. Tiering is coming, but this makes I/O profiling more important
    20-Jun-19 • • Comments Off on Tiering is coming, but this makes I/O profiling more important
  24. On the Basis of Sex: HPC in the fight for gender equality
    30-May-19 • • Comments Off on On the Basis of Sex: HPC in the fight for gender equality
  25. The London AWS summit: What would you do with a million cores?
    14-May-19 • • Comments Off on The London AWS summit: What would you do with a million cores?
  26. Ellexus CEO and AI to plot world domination
    2-May-19 • • Comments Off on Ellexus CEO and AI to plot world domination
  27. v2.13.3 Release notes and manuals
    2-May-19 • • Comments Off on v2.13.3 Release notes and manuals
  28. Building for the cloud: Dataflows not workflows
    30-Apr-19 • • Comments Off on Building for the cloud: Dataflows not workflows
  29. Have we reached a point of inflection for Singularity?
    26-Mar-19 • • Comments Off on Have we reached a point of inflection for Singularity?
  30. Building for the cloud: Dataflows not workflows
    13-Mar-19 • • Comments Off on Building for the cloud: Dataflows not workflows
  31. Our latest release: New statistics and views
    26-Feb-19 • • Comments Off on Our latest release: New statistics and views
  32. Preventing meltdown: How to get users to follow best practices
    25-Feb-19 • • Comments Off on Preventing meltdown: How to get users to follow best practices
  33. v2.13.2 Release notes and manuals
    25-Feb-19 • • Comments Off on v2.13.2 Release notes and manuals
  34. Managing HPC systems: When to use I/O profiling
    6-Feb-19 • • Comments Off on Managing HPC systems: When to use I/O profiling
  35. How to manage I/O in the biggest supercomputers in the world
    29-Jan-19 • • Comments Off on How to manage I/O in the biggest supercomputers in the world
  36. Why HPC matters: justifying its enormous energy use
    23-Jan-19 • • Comments Off on Why HPC matters: justifying its enormous energy use
  37. Whitepaper: Saving 10% of project costs for the Wellcome Sanger Institute’s cloud-based genomics pipelines
    15-Jan-19 • • Comments Off on Whitepaper: Saving 10% of project costs for the Wellcome Sanger Institute’s cloud-based genomics pipelines
  38. Why you can save money by being left behind
    9-Jan-19 • • Comments Off on Why you can save money by being left behind
  39. Top free tools for monitoring disk I/O
    7-Jan-19 • • Comments Off on Top free tools for monitoring disk I/O
  40. Happy Christmas from Ellexus!
    21-Dec-18 • • Comments Off on Happy Christmas from Ellexus!
  41. CIUK: Only lacking a Christmas tree
    17-Dec-18 • • Comments Off on CIUK: Only lacking a Christmas tree
  42. Learning from students and vice versa
    13-Dec-18 • • Comments Off on Learning from students and vice versa
  43. v2.13.1 Release notes and manuals
    11-Dec-18 • • Comments Off on v2.13.1 Release notes and manuals
  44. Using Breeze to tune OpenFoam on AWS
    4-Dec-18 • • Comments Off on Using Breeze to tune OpenFoam on AWS
  45. Supercomputing with a Raspberry Pi
    29-Nov-18 • • Comments Off on Supercomputing with a Raspberry Pi
  46. Cool things we saw at SC18
    28-Nov-18 • • Comments Off on Cool things we saw at SC18
  47. Video: The future of HPC from the IBM SC18 booth
    20-Nov-18 • • Comments Off on Video: The future of HPC from the IBM SC18 booth
  48. How can you analyse parallel I/O? Find out at SC18
    7-Nov-18 • • Comments Off on How can you analyse parallel I/O? Find out at SC18
  49. Published on InsideHPC, SC18 thoughts: A change in climate for HPC?
    7-Nov-18 • • Comments Off on Published on InsideHPC, SC18 thoughts: A change in climate for HPC?
  50. TACC Star Alliance trip report from our CEO Rosemary
    29-Oct-18 • • Comments Off on TACC Star Alliance trip report from our CEO Rosemary
  51. AWS partner event: HPC in Healthcare and Life Sciences
    16-Oct-18 • • Comments Off on AWS partner event: HPC in Healthcare and Life Sciences
  52. I/O profiling and system telemetry for Singularity containers
    2-Oct-18 • • Comments Off on I/O profiling and system telemetry for Singularity containers
  53. Optimising DNA sequencing pipelines in the New Pipeline Group at the Sanger Institute
    1-Oct-18 • • Comments Off on Optimising DNA sequencing pipelines in the New Pipeline Group at the Sanger Institute
  54. Can we use machine learning to learn about machines?
    25-Sep-18 • • Comments Off on Can we use machine learning to learn about machines?
  55. Creating a bill of materials: Why tracking application file and network dependencies is so important
    18-Sep-18 • • Comments Off on Creating a bill of materials: Why tracking application file and network dependencies is so important
  56. v2.13.0 Release notes and manuals
    9-Sep-18 • • Comments Off on v2.13.0 Release notes and manuals
  57. Whitepaper: Ellexus traffic light reports show good and bad I/O
    29-Aug-18 • • Comments Off on Whitepaper: Ellexus traffic light reports show good and bad I/O
  58. Video: Mistral demo using an LSF cluster
    23-Aug-18 • • Comments Off on Video: Mistral demo using an LSF cluster
  59. Mistral now supports the Splunk dashboard
    16-Aug-18 • • Comments Off on Mistral now supports the Splunk dashboard
  60. Video: Breeze demo featuring the traffic light view
    31-Jul-18 • • Comments Off on Video: Breeze demo featuring the traffic light view
  61. Profiling OpenFOAM on Oracle HPC cloud highlights key potential improvements
    25-Jul-18 • • Comments Off on Profiling OpenFOAM on Oracle HPC cloud highlights key potential improvements
  62. Ellexus contributes to global paper on how to analyse I/O
    23-Jul-18 • • Comments Off on Ellexus contributes to global paper on how to analyse I/O
  63. How to improve write performance for machine learning on AWS – by 4x!
    18-Jul-18 • • Comments Off on How to improve write performance for machine learning on AWS – by 4x!
  64. Product release: All new traffic light system to flag up the bad I/O you should care about
    29-Jun-18 • • Comments Off on Product release: All new traffic light system to flag up the bad I/O you should care about
  65. v2.12.0 Release Notes and manuals
    27-Jun-18 • • Comments Off on v2.12.0 Release Notes and manuals
  66. What we want to learn at DAC
    26-Jun-18 • • Comments Off on What we want to learn at DAC
  67. Whitepaper: Planning cloud storage for HPC and high throughput applications
    21-Jun-18 • • Comments Off on Whitepaper: Planning cloud storage for HPC and high throughput applications
  68. Ellexus advises The Lords
    20-Jun-18 • • Comments Off on Ellexus advises The Lords
  69. Video: The 10 commandments of good I/O
    24-Apr-18 • • Comments Off on Video: The 10 commandments of good I/O
  70. v2.11.3 Release Notes and Manuals
    26-Mar-18 • • Comments Off on v2.11.3 Release Notes and Manuals
  71. What Ellexus learned at Rice Oil & Gas
    22-Mar-18 • • Comments Off on What Ellexus learned at Rice Oil & Gas
  72. Case study: Debugging a customer support issue
    27-Feb-18 • • Comments Off on Case study: Debugging a customer support issue
  73. Video: I/O profiling as a service
    15-Feb-18 • • Comments Off on Video: I/O profiling as a service
  74. Act now before dependencies lead workflows astray
    8-Feb-18 • • Comments Off on Act now before dependencies lead workflows astray
  75. Why should I check my container?
    1-Feb-18 • • Comments Off on Why should I check my container?
  76. Detecting WAN mount issues with Breeze
    26-Jan-18 • • Comments Off on Detecting WAN mount issues with Breeze
  77. Common Docker gotchas that you need to avoid
    19-Jan-18 • • Comments Off on Common Docker gotchas that you need to avoid
  78. Video: Implementing a fair-use policy with Mistral
    11-Jan-18 • • Comments Off on Video: Implementing a fair-use policy with Mistral
  79. v2.11.2 Release Notes and Manuals
    9-Jan-18 • • Comments Off on v2.11.2 Release Notes and Manuals
  80. Ellexus tools support Intel MPI
    9-Jan-18 • • Comments Off on Ellexus tools support Intel MPI
  81. White paper: Meltdown and Spectre make measuring I/O vital
    8-Jan-18 • • Comments Off on White paper: Meltdown and Spectre make measuring I/O vital
  82. New Year I/O resolutions: Make improvements now for the year to come
    2-Jan-18 • • Comments Off on New Year I/O resolutions: Make improvements now for the year to come
  83. Happy Christmas from everyone at Ellexus!
    21-Dec-17 • • Comments Off on Happy Christmas from everyone at Ellexus!
  84. Tracing technology: ltrace and strace
    19-Dec-17 • • Comments Off on Tracing technology: ltrace and strace
  85. InsideHPC slidecast featuring Ellexus Container Checker
    15-Dec-17 • • Comments Off on InsideHPC slidecast featuring Ellexus Container Checker
  86. What SMEs should consider when looking to the cloud
    11-Dec-17 • • Comments Off on What SMEs should consider when looking to the cloud
  87. Video: Stop overloading storage with bad I/O!
    5-Dec-17 • • Comments Off on Video: Stop overloading storage with bad I/O!
  88. When POSIX I/O meets exascale, do the old rules apply?
    4-Dec-17 • • Comments Off on When POSIX I/O meets exascale, do the old rules apply?
  89. Post-SC thoughts: Arm, AI and a cloudy future
    28-Nov-17 • • Comments Off on Post-SC thoughts: Arm, AI and a cloudy future
  90. Breeze in action at data-rich Iotic Labs
    23-Nov-17 • • Comments Off on Breeze in action at data-rich Iotic Labs
  91. Our tools, migrating to Arm and Raspberry Pi
    20-Nov-17 • • Comments Off on Our tools, migrating to Arm and Raspberry Pi
  92. How to integrate Breeze and Mistral with Jenkins
    16-Nov-17 • • Comments Off on How to integrate Breeze and Mistral with Jenkins
  93. White paper: Optimising for a changing environment with Alces Flight
    13-Nov-17 • • Comments Off on White paper: Optimising for a changing environment with Alces Flight
  94. Arm versions of Ellexus’ tools are here
    10-Nov-17 • • Comments Off on Arm versions of Ellexus’ tools are here
  95. Video: Get started with Ellexus Container Checker
    9-Nov-17 • • Comments Off on Video: Get started with Ellexus Container Checker
  96. Continuous integration: Why I/O profiling should be part of your test suite
    6-Nov-17 • • Comments Off on Continuous integration: Why I/O profiling should be part of your test suite
  97. Ellexus Container Checker launches on AWS Marketplace
    2-Nov-17 • • Comments Off on Ellexus Container Checker launches on AWS Marketplace
  98. Mistral, Breeze and Darshan: what’s the difference?
    1-Nov-17 • • Comments Off on Mistral, Breeze and Darshan: what’s the difference?
  99. Video: Using I/O stats in Breeze to uncover inefficient I/O operations
    30-Oct-17 • • Comments Off on Video: Using I/O stats in Breeze to uncover inefficient I/O operations
  100. Video: Discovering rogue jobs with Mistral
    13-Oct-17 • • Comments Off on Video: Discovering rogue jobs with Mistral
  101. Ellexus Mistral is ‘ready for IBM storage’
    10-Oct-17 • • Comments Off on Ellexus Mistral is ‘ready for IBM storage’
  102. v2.11.0 Release Notes and Manuals
    10-Oct-17 • • Comments Off on v2.11.0 Release Notes and Manuals
  103. Ellexus joins the OpenPOWER foundation
    3-Oct-17 • • Comments Off on Ellexus joins the OpenPOWER foundation
  104. New per-second AWS billing: making every second count
    28-Sep-17 • • Comments Off on New per-second AWS billing: making every second count
  105. Check your containers with Healthcheck
    20-Jul-17 • • Comments Off on Check your containers with Healthcheck
  106. Mistral on mixed compute architectures
    20-Jul-17 • • Comments Off on Mistral on mixed compute architectures
  107. How to monitor applications on Openstack
    20-Jul-17 • • Comments Off on How to monitor applications on Openstack
  108. White paper: Maximising HPC performance on AWS public cloud
    7-Jul-17 • • Comments Off on White paper: Maximising HPC performance on AWS public cloud
  109. New output logging plug-ins for Mistral
    11-May-17 • • Comments Off on New output logging plug-ins for Mistral
  110. Silicon Valley case study: Catching rogue jobs before they overload shared storage
    11-May-17 • • Comments Off on Silicon Valley case study: Catching rogue jobs before they overload shared storage
  111. As compute power grows, optimisation is vital
    13-Apr-17 • • Comments Off on As compute power grows, optimisation is vital
  112. Red Nose Day
    24-Mar-17 • • Comments Off on Red Nose Day
  113. Will HPC become pay-as-you-go?
    14-Mar-17 • • Comments Off on Will HPC become pay-as-you-go?
  114. The exascale challenge
    27-Jan-17 • • Comments Off on The exascale challenge
  115. IBM reference architecture version one: Mistral and RTM
    8-Dec-16 • • Comments Off on IBM reference architecture version one: Mistral and RTM
  116. Happy Halloween!
    31-Oct-16 • • Comments Off on Happy Halloween!
  117. Profiling genome pipelines at the Sanger Institute
    25-Oct-16 • • Comments Off on Profiling genome pipelines at the Sanger Institute
  118. Ellexus offers commercial support for XALT
    18-Oct-16 • • Comments Off on Ellexus offers commercial support for XALT
  119. The emergence of software defined storage
    30-Sep-16 • • Comments Off on The emergence of software defined storage
  120. Ellexus heads to Bengaluru with EMC Isilon and ARM
    7-Aug-16 • • Comments Off on Ellexus heads to Bengaluru with EMC Isilon and ARM
  121. Industry petabytes revealed
    31-May-16 • • Comments Off on Industry petabytes revealed
  122. Mistral wins ‘Product of the Year’
    14-Apr-16 • • Comments Off on Mistral wins ‘Product of the Year’
  123. Ellexus treads the halls of BioIT
    13-Apr-16 • • Comments Off on Ellexus treads the halls of BioIT
  124. Interview: ‘Tech refined at ARM targets HPC I/O bottlenecks’
    16-Feb-16 • • Comments Off on Interview: ‘Tech refined at ARM targets HPC I/O bottlenecks’
  125. Mistral hits the market
    1-Feb-16 • • Comments Off on Mistral hits the market
  126. Customer blog: How ANSYS deploys Breeze
    22-Jan-16 • • Comments Off on Customer blog: How ANSYS deploys Breeze
  127. Developing Mistral with ARM
    19-Jan-16 • • Comments Off on Developing Mistral with ARM
  128. Business women inspire Cambridge students
    3-Dec-15 • • Comments Off on Business women inspire Cambridge students
  129. Mistral mingles at SC’15
    25-Nov-15 • • Comments Off on Mistral mingles at SC’15
  130. Happy Halloween from Ellexus!
    31-Oct-15 • • Comments Off on Happy Halloween from Ellexus!
  131. Ellexus welcomes Dutch ministerial visit
    30-Sep-15 • • Comments Off on Ellexus welcomes Dutch ministerial visit
  132. CEOs: The next generation
    2-Sep-15 • • Comments Off on CEOs: The next generation
  133. And Mistral is off!
    10-Aug-15 • • Comments Off on And Mistral is off!
  134. Mistral is taking shared storage problems by storm!
    3-Jul-15 • • Comments Off on Mistral is taking shared storage problems by storm!
  135. Inspiring entrepreneurs in Croatia
    22-Jun-15 • • Comments Off on Inspiring entrepreneurs in Croatia
  136. Mentor Graphics uses Breeze in action to optimise a software build
    2-Jun-15 • • Comments Off on Mentor Graphics uses Breeze in action to optimise a software build
  137. New team members at Ellexus
    8-May-15 • • Comments Off on New team members at Ellexus
  138. Happy Red Nose Day
    20-Mar-15 • • Comments Off on Happy Red Nose Day
  139. Profiling applications for ARM HPC IT Department
    12-Jan-15 • • Comments Off on Profiling applications for ARM HPC IT Department
  140. Breeze Docker Gen going down a storm at SC’14
    30-Nov-14 • • Comments Off on Breeze Docker Gen going down a storm at SC’14
  141. Techpreneur awards: we have a winner!
    14-Jul-14 • • Comments Off on Techpreneur awards: we have a winner!
  142. Causing a splash at the International Super Computing conference in Leipzig
    14-Jul-14 • • Comments Off on Causing a splash at the International Super Computing conference in Leipzig
  143. How to speed up your EDA flows
    14-Jul-14 • • Comments Off on How to speed up your EDA flows
  144. Why everyone should do a lightning talk
    10-Jul-14 • • Comments Off on Why everyone should do a lightning talk
  145. Grid Engine comes home
    30-Oct-13 • • Comments Off on Grid Engine comes home
  146. David Cameron drops in for a cup of tea
    15-Oct-13 • • Comments Off on David Cameron drops in for a cup of tea
  147. It’s a ‘Breeze’ with the Client Technology Solutions Group at Cadence
    17-Sep-13 • • Comments Off on It’s a ‘Breeze’ with the Client Technology Solutions Group at Cadence
  148. Tcsh Aliases (2 of 3): Using tcsh history substitutions within aliases
    25-Jul-13 • • Comments Off on Tcsh Aliases (2 of 3): Using tcsh history substitutions within aliases
  149. Tcsh Aliases (3 of 3): Automatically Resolving Aliases using tcshParser
    24-Jul-13 • • Comments Off on Tcsh Aliases (3 of 3): Automatically Resolving Aliases using tcshParser
  150. Tcsh Aliases (1 of 3): Introduction to expanding tcsh aliases and history substitutions
    24-Jul-13 • • Comments Off on Tcsh Aliases (1 of 3): Introduction to expanding tcsh aliases and history substitutions
  151. Tracing Yocto: combining LD_PRELOAD technologies
    27-Jun-13 • • Comments Off on Tracing Yocto: combining LD_PRELOAD technologies
  152. Edinburgh scoop Best in Europe in the ISC Student Cluster Challenge
    25-Jun-13 • • Comments Off on Edinburgh scoop Best in Europe in the ISC Student Cluster Challenge
  153. sViz: strace visualisation tool
    12-Jun-13 • • Comments Off on sViz: strace visualisation tool
  154. A meeting of minds in Cambridge: key figures from Silicon Fen
    10-Jun-13 • • Comments Off on A meeting of minds in Cambridge: key figures from Silicon Fen
  155. Spring is here!
    3-Jun-13 • • Comments Off on Spring is here!
  156. The Viridis ARM server is a Green IT awards winner 2013
    23-May-13 • • Comments Off on The Viridis ARM server is a Green IT awards winner 2013
  157. Naming Conventions
    26-Apr-13 • • Comments Off on Naming Conventions
  158. Raspberry Pie!!
    22-Apr-13 • • Comments Off on Raspberry Pie!!
  159. Dawn with BIOS IT on Wall Street
    17-Apr-13 • • Comments Off on Dawn with BIOS IT on Wall Street
  160. One Friday afternoon: Tar options script
    2-Apr-13 • • Comments Off on One Friday afternoon: Tar options script
  161. Software migration challenges? With the right tool, its a Breeze
    20-Mar-13 • • Comments Off on Software migration challenges? With the right tool, its a Breeze
  162. Mornington Crescent*
    21-Nov-12 • • Comments Off on Mornington Crescent*
  163. 3D graphics tool Blender can detect virtual machine settings! Using Breeze to work out how it does that
    13-Apr-12 • • Comments Off on 3D graphics tool Blender can detect virtual machine settings! Using Breeze to work out how it does that
  164. Embedded World 2012 Nuremberg
    6-Mar-12 • • Comments Off on Embedded World 2012 Nuremberg
  165. Getting started with ltrace: how does it do that?
    23-Nov-11 • • Comments Off on Getting started with ltrace: how does it do that?
  166. House keeping in the cloud: Why your Mum was right to make you tidy your room
    21-Nov-11 • • Comments Off on House keeping in the cloud: Why your Mum was right to make you tidy your room