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1. Supercharging the Ellexus HPC monitoring tools with the Hartree Centre
   1-Aug-19 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Supercharging the Ellexus HPC monitoring tools with the Hartree Centre
2. How to optimise the data you collect with Mistral
   22-Jul-19 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on How to optimise the data you collect with Mistral
3. Whitepaper: I/O profiling to improve DL_POLY, achieving an 8% improvement for molecular dynamics
   26-Jun-19 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Whitepaper: I/O profiling to improve DL_POLY, achieving an 8% improvement for molecular dynamics
4. Tiering is coming, but this makes I/O profiling more important
   20-Jun-19 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Tiering is coming, but this makes I/O profiling more important
5. On the Basis of Sex: HPC in the fight for gender equality
   30-May-19 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on On the Basis of Sex: HPC in the fight for gender equality
6. The London AWS summit: What would you do with a million cores?
   14-May-19 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on The London AWS summit: What would you do with a million cores?
7. Ellexus CEO and AI to plot world domination
   2-May-19 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Ellexus CEO and AI to plot world domination
8. Building for the cloud: Dataflows not workflows
   30-Apr-19 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Building for the cloud: Dataflows not workflows
9. Have we reached a point of inflection for Singularity?
   26-Mar-19 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Have we reached a point of inflection for Singularity?
10. Building for the cloud: Dataflows not workflows
    13-Mar-19 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Building for the cloud: Dataflows not workflows
11. Our latest release: New statistics and views
    26-Feb-19 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Our latest release: New statistics and views
12. Preventing meltdown: How to get users to follow best practices
    25-Feb-19 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Preventing meltdown: How to get users to follow best practices
13. Managing HPC systems: When to use I/O profiling
    6-Feb-19 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Managing HPC systems: When to use I/O profiling
14. How to manage I/O in the biggest supercomputers in the world
    29-Jan-19 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on How to manage I/O in the biggest supercomputers in the world
15. Why HPC matters: justifying its enormous energy use
    23-Jan-19 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Why HPC matters: justifying its enormous energy use
16. Whitepaper: Saving 10% of project costs for the Wellcome Sanger Institute’s cloud-based genomics pipelines
    15-Jan-19 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Whitepaper: Saving 10% of project costs for the Wellcome Sanger Institute’s cloud-based genomics pipelines
17. Why you can save money by being left behind
    9-Jan-19 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Why you can save money by being left behind
18. Top free tools for monitoring disk I/O
    7-Jan-19 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Top free tools for monitoring disk I/O
19. Happy Christmas from Ellexus!
    21-Dec-18 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Happy Christmas from Ellexus!
20. CIUK: Only lacking a Christmas tree
    17-Dec-18 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on CIUK: Only lacking a Christmas tree
21. Learning from students and vice versa
    13-Dec-18 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Learning from students and vice versa
22. Using Breeze to tune OpenFoam on AWS
    4-Dec-18 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Using Breeze to tune OpenFoam on AWS
23. Supercomputing with a Raspberry Pi
    29-Nov-18 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Supercomputing with a Raspberry Pi
24. Cool things we saw at SC18
    28-Nov-18 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Cool things we saw at SC18
25. 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
26. 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
27. 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?
28. 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
29. 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
30. 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
31. 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
32. 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?
33. 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
34. 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
35. Video: Mistral demo using an LSF cluster
    23-Aug-18 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Video: Mistral demo using an LSF cluster
36. Mistral now supports the Splunk dashboard
    16-Aug-18 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Mistral now supports the Splunk dashboard
37. Video: Breeze demo featuring the traffic light view
    31-Jul-18 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Video: Breeze demo featuring the traffic light view
38. 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
39. 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
40. 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!
41. 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
42. What we want to learn at DAC
    26-Jun-18 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on What we want to learn at DAC
43. 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
44. Ellexus advises The Lords
    20-Jun-18 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Ellexus advises The Lords
45. Video: The 10 commandments of good I/O
    24-Apr-18 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Video: The 10 commandments of good I/O
46. What Ellexus learned at Rice Oil & Gas
    22-Mar-18 • Eric Martin • Comments Off on What Ellexus learned at Rice Oil & Gas
47. Case study: Debugging a customer support issue
    27-Feb-18 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Case study: Debugging a customer support issue
48. Video: I/O profiling as a service
    15-Feb-18 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Video: I/O profiling as a service
49. Act now before dependencies lead workflows astray
    8-Feb-18 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Act now before dependencies lead workflows astray
50. Why should I check my container?
    1-Feb-18 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Why should I check my container?
51. Detecting WAN mount issues with Breeze
    26-Jan-18 • Paul Geldart • Comments Off on Detecting WAN mount issues with Breeze
52. Common Docker gotchas that you need to avoid
    19-Jan-18 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Common Docker gotchas that you need to avoid
53. Video: Implementing a fair-use policy with Mistral
    11-Jan-18 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Video: Implementing a fair-use policy with Mistral
54. Ellexus tools support Intel MPI
    9-Jan-18 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Ellexus tools support Intel MPI
55. 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
56. 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
57. Happy Christmas from everyone at Ellexus!
    21-Dec-17 • Felicity Pitchers • Comments Off on Happy Christmas from everyone at Ellexus!
58. Tracing technology: ltrace and strace
    19-Dec-17 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Tracing technology: ltrace and strace
59. InsideHPC slidecast featuring Ellexus Container Checker
    15-Dec-17 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on InsideHPC slidecast featuring Ellexus Container Checker
60. 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
61. Video: Stop overloading storage with bad I/O!
    5-Dec-17 • Eric Martin • Comments Off on Video: Stop overloading storage with bad I/O!
62. 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?
63. 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
64. Breeze in action at data-rich Iotic Labs
    23-Nov-17 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Breeze in action at data-rich Iotic Labs
65. Our tools, migrating to Arm and Raspberry Pi
    20-Nov-17 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Our tools, migrating to Arm and Raspberry Pi
66. How to integrate Breeze and Mistral with Jenkins
    16-Nov-17 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on How to integrate Breeze and Mistral with Jenkins
67. 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
68. Arm versions of Ellexus’ tools are here
    10-Nov-17 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Arm versions of Ellexus’ tools are here
69. Video: Get started with Ellexus Container Checker
    9-Nov-17 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Video: Get started with Ellexus Container Checker
70. 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
71. Ellexus Container Checker launches on AWS Marketplace
    2-Nov-17 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Ellexus Container Checker launches on AWS Marketplace
72. Mistral, Breeze and Darshan: what’s the difference?
    1-Nov-17 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Mistral, Breeze and Darshan: what’s the difference?
73. 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
74. Video: Discovering rogue jobs with Mistral
    13-Oct-17 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Video: Discovering rogue jobs with Mistral
75. Ellexus Mistral is ‘ready for IBM storage’
    10-Oct-17 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Ellexus Mistral is ‘ready for IBM storage’
76. Ellexus joins the OpenPOWER foundation
    3-Oct-17 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Ellexus joins the OpenPOWER foundation
77. 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
78. Check your containers with Healthcheck
    20-Jul-17 • Felicity Pitchers • Comments Off on Check your containers with Healthcheck
79. Mistral on mixed compute architectures
    20-Jul-17 • Felicity Pitchers • Comments Off on Mistral on mixed compute architectures
80. How to monitor applications on Openstack
    20-Jul-17 • Felicity Pitchers • Comments Off on How to monitor applications on Openstack
81. 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
82. New output logging plug-ins for Mistral
    11-May-17 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on New output logging plug-ins for Mistral
83. 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
84. As compute power grows, optimisation is vital
    13-Apr-17 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on As compute power grows, optimisation is vital
85. Red Nose Day
    24-Mar-17 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Red Nose Day
86. Will HPC become pay-as-you-go?
    14-Mar-17 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Will HPC become pay-as-you-go?
87. The exascale challenge
    27-Jan-17 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on The exascale challenge
88. IBM reference architecture version one: Mistral and RTM
    8-Dec-16 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on IBM reference architecture version one: Mistral and RTM
89. Happy Halloween!
    31-Oct-16 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Happy Halloween!
90. Profiling genome pipelines at the Sanger Institute
    25-Oct-16 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Profiling genome pipelines at the Sanger Institute
91. Ellexus offers commercial support for XALT
    18-Oct-16 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Ellexus offers commercial support for XALT
92. The emergence of software defined storage
    30-Sep-16 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on The emergence of software defined storage
93. 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
94. Industry petabytes revealed
    31-May-16 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Industry petabytes revealed
95. Mistral wins ‘Product of the Year’
    14-Apr-16 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Mistral wins ‘Product of the Year’
96. Ellexus treads the halls of BioIT
    13-Apr-16 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Ellexus treads the halls of BioIT
97. 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’
98. Mistral hits the market
    1-Feb-16 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Mistral hits the market
99. Customer blog: How ANSYS deploys Breeze
    22-Jan-16 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Customer blog: How ANSYS deploys Breeze
100. Developing Mistral with ARM
     19-Jan-16 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Developing Mistral with ARM
101. Business women inspire Cambridge students
     3-Dec-15 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Business women inspire Cambridge students
102. Mistral mingles at SC’15
     25-Nov-15 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Mistral mingles at SC’15
103. Happy Halloween from Ellexus!
     31-Oct-15 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Happy Halloween from Ellexus!
104. Ellexus welcomes Dutch ministerial visit
     30-Sep-15 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Ellexus welcomes Dutch ministerial visit
105. CEOs: The next generation
     2-Sep-15 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on CEOs: The next generation
106. And Mistral is off!
     10-Aug-15 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on And Mistral is off!
107. Mistral is taking shared storage problems by storm!
     3-Jul-15 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Mistral is taking shared storage problems by storm!
108. Inspiring entrepreneurs in Croatia
     22-Jun-15 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Inspiring entrepreneurs in Croatia
109. 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
110. New team members at Ellexus
     8-May-15 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on New team members at Ellexus
111. Happy Red Nose Day
     20-Mar-15 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Happy Red Nose Day
112. Profiling applications for ARM HPC IT Department
     12-Jan-15 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Profiling applications for ARM HPC IT Department
113. 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
114. Techpreneur awards: we have a winner!
     14-Jul-14 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Techpreneur awards: we have a winner!
115. 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
116. How to speed up your EDA flows
     14-Jul-14 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on How to speed up your EDA flows
117. Why everyone should do a lightning talk
     10-Jul-14 • Rosemary Francis • Comments Off on Why everyone should do a lightning talk
118. Grid Engine comes home
     30-Oct-13 • adam • Comments Off on Grid Engine comes home
119. 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
120. 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
121. 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
122. 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
123. 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
124. Tracing Yocto: combining LD_PRELOAD technologies
     27-Jun-13 • adam • Comments Off on Tracing Yocto: combining LD_PRELOAD technologies
125. 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
126. sViz: strace visualisation tool
     12-Jun-13 • adam • Comments Off on sViz: strace visualisation tool
127. 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
128. Spring is here!
     3-Jun-13 • adam • Comments Off on Spring is here!
129. 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
130. Naming Conventions
     26-Apr-13 • Ruan Kendall • Comments Off on Naming Conventions
131. Raspberry Pie!!
     22-Apr-13 • adam • Comments Off on Raspberry Pie!!
132. Dawn with BIOS IT on Wall Street
     17-Apr-13 • adam • Comments Off on Dawn with BIOS IT on Wall Street
133. One Friday afternoon: Tar options script
     2-Apr-13 • Richard Jordan • Comments Off on One Friday afternoon: Tar options script
134. 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
135. Mornington Crescent*
     21-Nov-12 • adam • Comments Off on Mornington Crescent*
136. 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
137. Embedded World 2012 Nuremberg
     6-Mar-12 • adam • Comments Off on Embedded World 2012 Nuremberg
138. 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?
139. 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