This is a talk that was delivered at the AWS/Arm Cloud Hackathon in July 2021. Tom Deakin is a computer scientist at the University of Bristol, and speaks to us about how to build for portability, and what that really means in an era of so …
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This is a talk that was delivered at the AWS/Arm Cloud Hackathon in July 2021. John Linford is Arm’s director of HPC and in this talk he covers why you should evolve your profiling beyond using print(), and how much time and effort …
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This is a talk that was delivered at the AWS/Arm Cloud Hackathon in July 2021. Jeff Hammond is a computational scientist at NVIDIA and walks through techniques for getting applications to scale in HPC. The Summer Hackathon ran for a week …
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Netflix has a really ambitious goal to create more content than practically anyone, but ran into headwinds when Covid-19 forced us all to lock down: it became hard to recruit and support artists, editors and other creatives without finding …
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Nextflow Tower became necessary when lots of Nextflow users started to leave the confines of their existing environments in search of more compute, more storage, more capabilities. Nextflow made their workflows portable, but there was still …
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NF Core is an open source repository of Nextflow workflows that can be downloaded, shared, forked, updated, tested and validated. If you’ve ever heard that quote from Isaac Newtown about seeing further by standing on the shoulders of …
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AWS has a LOT of storage options (block, PIOPS, object, volume, loads of file sytems), pretty much all of which can be used for HPC. That’s because we’re not forced to come up with one single massively fast storage solution that …
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In recent years, we’ve all been amazed at how large areas of scientific computing have moved to abstract their workflows away from the details of systems and cluster architecture. Bioinformatics has really lead the way in this regard - …
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