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1. AWS partner event: HPC in Healthcare and Life Sciences
   16-Oct-18 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on AWS partner event: HPC in Healthcare and Life Sciences
2. I/O profiling and system telemetry for Singularity containers
   2-Oct-18 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on I/O profiling and system telemetry for Singularity containers
3. Optimising DNA sequencing pipelines in the New Pipeline Group at the Sanger Institute
   1-Oct-18 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Optimising DNA sequencing pipelines in the New Pipeline Group at the Sanger Institute
4. Can we use machine learning to learn about machines?
   25-Sep-18 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Can we use machine learning to learn about machines?
5. Creating a bill of materials: Why tracking application file and network dependencies is so important
   18-Sep-18 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Creating a bill of materials: Why tracking application file and network dependencies is so important
6. Whitepaper: Ellexus traffic light reports show good and bad I/O
   29-Aug-18 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Whitepaper: Ellexus traffic light reports show good and bad I/O
7. Video: Mistral demo using an LSF cluster
   23-Aug-18 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Video: Mistral demo using an LSF cluster
8. Mistral now supports the Splunk dashboard
   16-Aug-18 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Mistral now supports the Splunk dashboard
9. Video: Breeze demo featuring the traffic light view
   31-Jul-18 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Video: Breeze demo featuring the traffic light view
10. Profiling OpenFOAM on Oracle HPC cloud highlights key potential improvements
    25-Jul-18 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Profiling OpenFOAM on Oracle HPC cloud highlights key potential improvements
11. Ellexus contributes to global paper on how to analyse I/O
    23-Jul-18 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Ellexus contributes to global paper on how to analyse I/O
12. How to improve write performance for machine learning on AWS – by 4x!
    18-Jul-18 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on How to improve write performance for machine learning on AWS – by 4x!
13. Product release: All new traffic light system to flag up the bad I/O you should care about
    29-Jun-18 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Product release: All new traffic light system to flag up the bad I/O you should care about
14. What we want to learn at DAC
    26-Jun-18 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on What we want to learn at DAC
15. Whitepaper: Planning cloud storage for HPC and high throughput applications
    21-Jun-18 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Whitepaper: Planning cloud storage for HPC and high throughput applications
16. Ellexus advises The Lords
    20-Jun-18 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Ellexus advises The Lords
17. Video: The 10 commandments of good I/O
    24-Apr-18 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Video: The 10 commandments of good I/O
18. What Ellexus learned at Rice Oil & Gas
    22-Mar-18 • Eric Martin • Comments Off on What Ellexus learned at Rice Oil & Gas
19. Case study: Debugging a customer support issue
    27-Feb-18 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Case study: Debugging a customer support issue
20. Video: I/O profiling as a service
    15-Feb-18 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Video: I/O profiling as a service
21. Act now before dependencies lead workflows astray
    8-Feb-18 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Act now before dependencies lead workflows astray
22. Why should I check my container?
    1-Feb-18 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Why should I check my container?
23. Detecting WAN mount issues with Breeze
    26-Jan-18 • Paul Geldart • Comments Off on Detecting WAN mount issues with Breeze
24. Common Docker gotchas that you need to avoid
    19-Jan-18 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Common Docker gotchas that you need to avoid
25. Video: Implementing a fair-use policy with Mistral
    11-Jan-18 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Video: Implementing a fair-use policy with Mistral
26. Ellexus tools support Intel MPI
    9-Jan-18 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Ellexus tools support Intel MPI
27. White paper: Meltdown and Spectre make measuring I/O vital
    8-Jan-18 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on White paper: Meltdown and Spectre make measuring I/O vital
28. New Year I/O resolutions: Make improvements now for the year to come
    2-Jan-18 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on New Year I/O resolutions: Make improvements now for the year to come
29. Happy Christmas from everyone at Ellexus!
    21-Dec-17 • Felicity Pitchers • Comments Off on Happy Christmas from everyone at Ellexus!
30. Tracing technology: ltrace and strace
    19-Dec-17 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Tracing technology: ltrace and strace
31. InsideHPC slidecast featuring Ellexus Container Checker
    15-Dec-17 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on InsideHPC slidecast featuring Ellexus Container Checker
32. What SMEs should consider when looking to the cloud
    11-Dec-17 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on What SMEs should consider when looking to the cloud
33. Video: Stop overloading storage with bad I/O!
    5-Dec-17 • Eric Martin • Comments Off on Video: Stop overloading storage with bad I/O!
34. When POSIX I/O meets exascale, do the old rules apply?
    4-Dec-17 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on When POSIX I/O meets exascale, do the old rules apply?
35. Post-SC thoughts: Arm, AI and a cloudy future
    28-Nov-17 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Post-SC thoughts: Arm, AI and a cloudy future
36. Breeze in action at data-rich Iotic Labs
    23-Nov-17 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Breeze in action at data-rich Iotic Labs
37. Our tools, migrating to Arm and Raspberry Pi
    20-Nov-17 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Our tools, migrating to Arm and Raspberry Pi
38. How to integrate Breeze and Mistral with Jenkins
    16-Nov-17 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on How to integrate Breeze and Mistral with Jenkins
39. White paper: Optimising for a changing environment with Alces Flight
    13-Nov-17 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on White paper: Optimising for a changing environment with Alces Flight
40. Arm versions of Ellexus’ tools are here
    10-Nov-17 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Arm versions of Ellexus’ tools are here
41. Video: Get started with Ellexus Container Checker
    9-Nov-17 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Video: Get started with Ellexus Container Checker
42. Continuous integration: Why I/O profiling should be part of your test suite
    6-Nov-17 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Continuous integration: Why I/O profiling should be part of your test suite
43. Ellexus Container Checker launches on AWS Marketplace
    2-Nov-17 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Ellexus Container Checker launches on AWS Marketplace
44. Mistral, Breeze and Darshan: what’s the difference?
    1-Nov-17 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Mistral, Breeze and Darshan: what’s the difference?
45. Video: Using I/O stats in Breeze to uncover inefficient I/O operations
    30-Oct-17 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Video: Using I/O stats in Breeze to uncover inefficient I/O operations
46. Video: Discovering rogue jobs with Mistral
    13-Oct-17 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Video: Discovering rogue jobs with Mistral
47. Ellexus Mistral is ‘ready for IBM storage’
    10-Oct-17 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Ellexus Mistral is ‘ready for IBM storage’
48. Ellexus joins the OpenPOWER foundation
    3-Oct-17 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Ellexus joins the OpenPOWER foundation
49. New per-second AWS billing: making every second count
    28-Sep-17 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on New per-second AWS billing: making every second count
50. Check your containers with Healthcheck
    20-Jul-17 • Felicity Pitchers • Comments Off on Check your containers with Healthcheck
51. Mistral on mixed compute architectures
    20-Jul-17 • Felicity Pitchers • Comments Off on Mistral on mixed compute architectures
52. How to monitor applications on Openstack
    20-Jul-17 • Felicity Pitchers • Comments Off on How to monitor applications on Openstack
53. White paper: Maximising HPC performance on AWS public cloud
    7-Jul-17 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on White paper: Maximising HPC performance on AWS public cloud
54. New output logging plug-ins for Mistral
    11-May-17 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on New output logging plug-ins for Mistral
55. Silicon Valley case study: Catching rogue jobs before they overload shared storage
    11-May-17 • Felicity Pitchers • Comments Off on Silicon Valley case study: Catching rogue jobs before they overload shared storage
56. As compute power grows, optimisation is vital
    13-Apr-17 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on As compute power grows, optimisation is vital
57. Red Nose Day
    24-Mar-17 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Red Nose Day
58. Will HPC become pay-as-you-go?
    14-Mar-17 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Will HPC become pay-as-you-go?
59. The exascale challenge
    27-Jan-17 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on The exascale challenge
60. IBM reference architecture version one: Mistral and RTM
    8-Dec-16 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on IBM reference architecture version one: Mistral and RTM
61. Happy Halloween!
    31-Oct-16 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Happy Halloween!
62. Profiling genome pipelines at the Sanger Institute
    25-Oct-16 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Profiling genome pipelines at the Sanger Institute
63. Ellexus offers commercial support for XALT
    18-Oct-16 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Ellexus offers commercial support for XALT
64. The emergence of software defined storage
    30-Sep-16 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on The emergence of software defined storage
65. Ellexus heads to Bengaluru with EMC Isilon and ARM
    7-Aug-16 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Ellexus heads to Bengaluru with EMC Isilon and ARM
66. Industry petabytes revealed
    31-May-16 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Industry petabytes revealed
67. Mistral wins ‘Product of the Year’
    14-Apr-16 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Mistral wins ‘Product of the Year’
68. Ellexus treads the halls of BioIT
    13-Apr-16 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Ellexus treads the halls of BioIT
69. Interview: ‘Tech refined at ARM targets HPC I/O bottlenecks’
    16-Feb-16 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Interview: ‘Tech refined at ARM targets HPC I/O bottlenecks’
70. Mistral hits the market
    1-Feb-16 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Mistral hits the market
71. Customer blog: How ANSYS deploys Breeze
    22-Jan-16 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Customer blog: How ANSYS deploys Breeze
72. Developing Mistral with ARM
    19-Jan-16 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Developing Mistral with ARM
73. Business women inspire Cambridge students
    3-Dec-15 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Business women inspire Cambridge students
74. Mistral mingles at SC’15
    25-Nov-15 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Mistral mingles at SC’15
75. Happy Halloween from Ellexus!
    31-Oct-15 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Happy Halloween from Ellexus!
76. Ellexus welcomes Dutch ministerial visit
    30-Sep-15 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Ellexus welcomes Dutch ministerial visit
77. CEOs: The next generation
    2-Sep-15 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on CEOs: The next generation
78. And Mistral is off!
    10-Aug-15 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on And Mistral is off!
79. Mistral is taking shared storage problems by storm!
    3-Jul-15 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Mistral is taking shared storage problems by storm!
80. Inspiring entrepreneurs in Croatia
    22-Jun-15 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Inspiring entrepreneurs in Croatia
81. Mentor Graphics uses Breeze in action to optimise a software build
    2-Jun-15 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Mentor Graphics uses Breeze in action to optimise a software build
82. New team members at Ellexus
    8-May-15 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on New team members at Ellexus
83. Happy Red Nose Day
    20-Mar-15 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Happy Red Nose Day
84. Profiling applications for ARM HPC IT Department
    12-Jan-15 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Profiling applications for ARM HPC IT Department
85. Breeze Docker Gen going down a storm at SC’14
    30-Nov-14 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Breeze Docker Gen going down a storm at SC’14
86. Techpreneur awards: we have a winner!
    14-Jul-14 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Techpreneur awards: we have a winner!
87. Causing a splash at the International Super Computing conference in Leipzig
    14-Jul-14 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Causing a splash at the International Super Computing conference in Leipzig
88. How to speed up your EDA flows
    14-Jul-14 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on How to speed up your EDA flows
89. Why everyone should do a lightning talk
    10-Jul-14 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Why everyone should do a lightning talk
90. Grid Engine comes home
    30-Oct-13 • adam • Comments Off on Grid Engine comes home
91. David Cameron drops in for a cup of tea
    15-Oct-13 • adam • Comments Off on David Cameron drops in for a cup of tea
92. It’s a ‘Breeze’ with the Client Technology Solutions Group at Cadence
    17-Sep-13 • adam • Comments Off on It’s a ‘Breeze’ with the Client Technology Solutions Group at Cadence
93. Tcsh Aliases (2 of 3): Using tcsh history substitutions within aliases
    25-Jul-13 • Richard Jordan • Comments Off on Tcsh Aliases (2 of 3): Using tcsh history substitutions within aliases
94. Tcsh Aliases (3 of 3): Automatically Resolving Aliases using tcshParser
    24-Jul-13 • Richard Jordan • Comments Off on Tcsh Aliases (3 of 3): Automatically Resolving Aliases using tcshParser
95. Tcsh Aliases (1 of 3): Introduction to expanding tcsh aliases and history substitutions
    24-Jul-13 • Richard Jordan • Comments Off on Tcsh Aliases (1 of 3): Introduction to expanding tcsh aliases and history substitutions
96. Tracing Yocto: combining LD_PRELOAD technologies
    27-Jun-13 • adam • Comments Off on Tracing Yocto: combining LD_PRELOAD technologies
97. Edinburgh scoop Best in Europe in the ISC Student Cluster Challenge
    25-Jun-13 • adam • Comments Off on Edinburgh scoop Best in Europe in the ISC Student Cluster Challenge
98. sViz: strace visualisation tool
    12-Jun-13 • adam • Comments Off on sViz: strace visualisation tool
99. A meeting of minds in Cambridge: key figures from Silicon Fen
    10-Jun-13 • adam • Comments Off on A meeting of minds in Cambridge: key figures from Silicon Fen
100. Spring is here!
     3-Jun-13 • adam • Comments Off on Spring is here!
101. The Viridis ARM server is a Green IT awards winner 2013
     23-May-13 • adam • Comments Off on The Viridis ARM server is a Green IT awards winner 2013
102. Naming Conventions
     26-Apr-13 • Ruan Kendall • Comments Off on Naming Conventions
103. Raspberry Pie!!
     22-Apr-13 • adam • Comments Off on Raspberry Pie!!
104. Dawn with BIOS IT on Wall Street
     17-Apr-13 • adam • Comments Off on Dawn with BIOS IT on Wall Street
105. One Friday afternoon: Tar options script
     2-Apr-13 • Richard Jordan • Comments Off on One Friday afternoon: Tar options script
106. Software migration challenges? With the right tool, its a Breeze
     20-Mar-13 • adam • Comments Off on Software migration challenges? With the right tool, its a Breeze
107. Mornington Crescent*
     21-Nov-12 • adam • Comments Off on Mornington Crescent*
108. 3D graphics tool Blender can detect virtual machine settings! Using Breeze to work out how it does that
     13-Apr-12 • adam • Comments Off on 3D graphics tool Blender can detect virtual machine settings! Using Breeze to work out how it does that
109. Embedded World 2012 Nuremberg
     6-Mar-12 • adam • Comments Off on Embedded World 2012 Nuremberg
110. Getting started with ltrace: how does it do that?
     23-Nov-11 • adam • Comments Off on Getting started with ltrace: how does it do that?
111. House keeping in the cloud: Why your Mum was right to make you tidy your room
     21-Nov-11 • adam • Comments Off on House keeping in the cloud: Why your Mum was right to make you tidy your room