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1. CIUK: Only lacking a Christmas tree
   17-Dec-18 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on CIUK: Only lacking a Christmas tree
2. Learning from students and vice versa
   13-Dec-18 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Learning from students and vice versa
3. Using Breeze to tune OpenFoam on AWS
   4-Dec-18 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Using Breeze to tune OpenFoam on AWS
4. Supercomputing with a Raspberry Pi
   29-Nov-18 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Supercomputing with a Raspberry Pi
5. Cool things we saw at SC18
   28-Nov-18 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Cool things we saw at SC18
6. Video: The future of HPC from the IBM SC18 booth
   20-Nov-18 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Video: The future of HPC from the IBM SC18 booth
7. How can you analyse parallel I/O? Find out at SC18
   7-Nov-18 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on How can you analyse parallel I/O? Find out at SC18
8. Published on InsideHPC, SC18 thoughts: A change in climate for HPC?
   7-Nov-18 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Published on InsideHPC, SC18 thoughts: A change in climate for HPC?
9. TACC Star Alliance trip report from our CEO Rosemary
   29-Oct-18 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on TACC Star Alliance trip report from our CEO Rosemary
10. 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
11. 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
12. 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
13. 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?
14. 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
15. 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
16. Video: Mistral demo using an LSF cluster
    23-Aug-18 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Video: Mistral demo using an LSF cluster
17. Mistral now supports the Splunk dashboard
    16-Aug-18 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Mistral now supports the Splunk dashboard
18. Video: Breeze demo featuring the traffic light view
    31-Jul-18 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Video: Breeze demo featuring the traffic light view
19. 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
20. 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
21. 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!
22. 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
23. What we want to learn at DAC
    26-Jun-18 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on What we want to learn at DAC
24. 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
25. Ellexus advises The Lords
    20-Jun-18 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Ellexus advises The Lords
26. Video: The 10 commandments of good I/O
    24-Apr-18 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Video: The 10 commandments of good I/O
27. What Ellexus learned at Rice Oil & Gas
    22-Mar-18 • Eric Martin • Comments Off on What Ellexus learned at Rice Oil & Gas
28. Case study: Debugging a customer support issue
    27-Feb-18 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Case study: Debugging a customer support issue
29. Video: I/O profiling as a service
    15-Feb-18 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Video: I/O profiling as a service
30. Act now before dependencies lead workflows astray
    8-Feb-18 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Act now before dependencies lead workflows astray
31. Why should I check my container?
    1-Feb-18 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Why should I check my container?
32. Detecting WAN mount issues with Breeze
    26-Jan-18 • Paul Geldart • Comments Off on Detecting WAN mount issues with Breeze
33. Common Docker gotchas that you need to avoid
    19-Jan-18 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Common Docker gotchas that you need to avoid
34. Video: Implementing a fair-use policy with Mistral
    11-Jan-18 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Video: Implementing a fair-use policy with Mistral
35. Ellexus tools support Intel MPI
    9-Jan-18 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Ellexus tools support Intel MPI
36. 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
37. 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
38. Happy Christmas from everyone at Ellexus!
    21-Dec-17 • Felicity Pitchers • Comments Off on Happy Christmas from everyone at Ellexus!
39. Tracing technology: ltrace and strace
    19-Dec-17 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Tracing technology: ltrace and strace
40. InsideHPC slidecast featuring Ellexus Container Checker
    15-Dec-17 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on InsideHPC slidecast featuring Ellexus Container Checker
41. 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
42. Video: Stop overloading storage with bad I/O!
    5-Dec-17 • Eric Martin • Comments Off on Video: Stop overloading storage with bad I/O!
43. 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?
44. 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
45. Breeze in action at data-rich Iotic Labs
    23-Nov-17 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Breeze in action at data-rich Iotic Labs
46. Our tools, migrating to Arm and Raspberry Pi
    20-Nov-17 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Our tools, migrating to Arm and Raspberry Pi
47. How to integrate Breeze and Mistral with Jenkins
    16-Nov-17 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on How to integrate Breeze and Mistral with Jenkins
48. 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
49. Arm versions of Ellexus’ tools are here
    10-Nov-17 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Arm versions of Ellexus’ tools are here
50. Video: Get started with Ellexus Container Checker
    9-Nov-17 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Video: Get started with Ellexus Container Checker
51. 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
52. Ellexus Container Checker launches on AWS Marketplace
    2-Nov-17 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Ellexus Container Checker launches on AWS Marketplace
53. Mistral, Breeze and Darshan: what’s the difference?
    1-Nov-17 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Mistral, Breeze and Darshan: what’s the difference?
54. 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
55. Video: Discovering rogue jobs with Mistral
    13-Oct-17 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Video: Discovering rogue jobs with Mistral
56. Ellexus Mistral is ‘ready for IBM storage’
    10-Oct-17 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Ellexus Mistral is ‘ready for IBM storage’
57. Ellexus joins the OpenPOWER foundation
    3-Oct-17 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Ellexus joins the OpenPOWER foundation
58. 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
59. Check your containers with Healthcheck
    20-Jul-17 • Felicity Pitchers • Comments Off on Check your containers with Healthcheck
60. Mistral on mixed compute architectures
    20-Jul-17 • Felicity Pitchers • Comments Off on Mistral on mixed compute architectures
61. How to monitor applications on Openstack
    20-Jul-17 • Felicity Pitchers • Comments Off on How to monitor applications on Openstack
62. 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
63. New output logging plug-ins for Mistral
    11-May-17 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on New output logging plug-ins for Mistral
64. 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
65. As compute power grows, optimisation is vital
    13-Apr-17 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on As compute power grows, optimisation is vital
66. Red Nose Day
    24-Mar-17 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Red Nose Day
67. Will HPC become pay-as-you-go?
    14-Mar-17 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Will HPC become pay-as-you-go?
68. The exascale challenge
    27-Jan-17 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on The exascale challenge
69. IBM reference architecture version one: Mistral and RTM
    8-Dec-16 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on IBM reference architecture version one: Mistral and RTM
70. Happy Halloween!
    31-Oct-16 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Happy Halloween!
71. Profiling genome pipelines at the Sanger Institute
    25-Oct-16 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Profiling genome pipelines at the Sanger Institute
72. Ellexus offers commercial support for XALT
    18-Oct-16 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Ellexus offers commercial support for XALT
73. The emergence of software defined storage
    30-Sep-16 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on The emergence of software defined storage
74. 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
75. Industry petabytes revealed
    31-May-16 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Industry petabytes revealed
76. Mistral wins ‘Product of the Year’
    14-Apr-16 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Mistral wins ‘Product of the Year’
77. Ellexus treads the halls of BioIT
    13-Apr-16 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Ellexus treads the halls of BioIT
78. 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’
79. Mistral hits the market
    1-Feb-16 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Mistral hits the market
80. Customer blog: How ANSYS deploys Breeze
    22-Jan-16 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Customer blog: How ANSYS deploys Breeze
81. Developing Mistral with ARM
    19-Jan-16 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Developing Mistral with ARM
82. Business women inspire Cambridge students
    3-Dec-15 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Business women inspire Cambridge students
83. Mistral mingles at SC’15
    25-Nov-15 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Mistral mingles at SC’15
84. Happy Halloween from Ellexus!
    31-Oct-15 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Happy Halloween from Ellexus!
85. Ellexus welcomes Dutch ministerial visit
    30-Sep-15 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Ellexus welcomes Dutch ministerial visit
86. CEOs: The next generation
    2-Sep-15 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on CEOs: The next generation
87. And Mistral is off!
    10-Aug-15 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on And Mistral is off!
88. Mistral is taking shared storage problems by storm!
    3-Jul-15 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Mistral is taking shared storage problems by storm!
89. Inspiring entrepreneurs in Croatia
    22-Jun-15 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Inspiring entrepreneurs in Croatia
90. 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
91. New team members at Ellexus
    8-May-15 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on New team members at Ellexus
92. Happy Red Nose Day
    20-Mar-15 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Happy Red Nose Day
93. Profiling applications for ARM HPC IT Department
    12-Jan-15 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Profiling applications for ARM HPC IT Department
94. 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
95. Techpreneur awards: we have a winner!
    14-Jul-14 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Techpreneur awards: we have a winner!
96. 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
97. How to speed up your EDA flows
    14-Jul-14 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on How to speed up your EDA flows
98. Why everyone should do a lightning talk
    10-Jul-14 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Why everyone should do a lightning talk
99. Grid Engine comes home
    30-Oct-13 • adam • Comments Off on Grid Engine comes home
100. 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
101. 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
102. 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
103. 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
104. 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
105. Tracing Yocto: combining LD_PRELOAD technologies
     27-Jun-13 • adam • Comments Off on Tracing Yocto: combining LD_PRELOAD technologies
106. 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
107. sViz: strace visualisation tool
     12-Jun-13 • adam • Comments Off on sViz: strace visualisation tool
108. 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
109. Spring is here!
     3-Jun-13 • adam • Comments Off on Spring is here!
110. 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
111. Naming Conventions
     26-Apr-13 • Ruan Kendall • Comments Off on Naming Conventions
112. Raspberry Pie!!
     22-Apr-13 • adam • Comments Off on Raspberry Pie!!
113. Dawn with BIOS IT on Wall Street
     17-Apr-13 • adam • Comments Off on Dawn with BIOS IT on Wall Street
114. One Friday afternoon: Tar options script
     2-Apr-13 • Richard Jordan • Comments Off on One Friday afternoon: Tar options script
115. 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
116. Mornington Crescent*
     21-Nov-12 • adam • Comments Off on Mornington Crescent*
117. 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
118. Embedded World 2012 Nuremberg
     6-Mar-12 • adam • Comments Off on Embedded World 2012 Nuremberg
119. 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?
120. 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