We recently had the pleasure of meeting with Gary Smith of Vertex, a life sciences company in Boston. Gary is an HPC Engineer and is using Univa Grid Engine for workload management and bursting to Amazon from their on-premise cluster….
Dubbed “The Premier AI Conference”, NVIDIA’s GPU Technology Conference (GTC) opens its doors in San Jose from March 17 to 21, 2019. This conference series is absolutely jam-packed with opportunities around every corner: training, speakers, workshops, events, plus direct access…
Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) is a fundamental practice in bioinformatics. Pipelines are comprised of complex, multi-step processes involving many different tools and intermediate data formats. With easy access to cloud infrastructure and containerized applications that are portable across clouds, users…
There has never been a more exciting year for Bio-IT World. Taking the show on the road after 17 years in Boston as the premier event showcasing IT and informatics technologies driving biomedical research, the Bio-IT World Conference & Expo…
Building a million core cluster isn’t easy, but here are some tips to help set you on the right path to achieving extreme scale HPC When Amazon approached us to build another one million core cluster, this time with a…
The Rice Oil & Gas High Performance Computing Conference, hosted annually (this is year 12) at Rice University in Houston, Texas, is the premier networking and learning event for HPC in the oil and gas industry. Several hundred participants from…
Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) is a fundamental practice in bioinformatics. Pipelines are comprised of complex, multi-step processes involving many different tools and intermediate data formats. With easy access to cloud infrastructure and containerized applications that are portable across clouds, users…
A primer on using Univa Grid Engine with GPU-aware applications In Part I of this two-part article, I provided a short primer on GPUs, explained how they are used in HPC and AI, and covered some of the challenges users…
A primer on using Univa Grid Engine with GPU-aware applications For almost two decades, GPUs (Graphics Processing Units) have been steadily revolutionizing high-performance computing (HPC) and AI. Originally designed for graphics-intensive applications such as gaming and image processing, it didn’t…
In life sciences research, solving big problems increasingly requires the fusion of genetic data with other rich data sets from omics, imaging, medical records to population-level studies. HPC, Analytics and AI make these types data wrangling possible, but they often…
