Synchronizing a fleet of Oracle database environments can become a major operational burden for organizations of all sizes. In this blog post, I explain how you can reduce operational complexity, improve agility, and reduce costs by using …
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The AWS Genomics CLI (or AGC) seriously removes all the grunt work involved in setting up bioinformatics pipelines to run in the cloud. We know that Snakemake, Cromwell, NextFlow and miniWDL all work happily in the cloud on AWS Batch, but …
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Customers have been asking us to make it easy to configure ParallelCluster to use a corporate directory server, so adding a user to the cloud HPC stack becomes as easy as adding them to (say) the Engineering Group in Active Directory or …
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We launched Amazon FSx for OpenZFS at re:invent in December, and well let’s just say it’s been more than a bit popular :-) ZFS and it’s friends have been a long time favorite of the HPC community, so we asked Delwin …
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Sometimes when we’re looking for performance we lose the forrest for all those trees - we miss the huge improvements we can do to unglamorous parts of the overall workflow, while we obsess on the pieces that look hard. It’s an …
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SkyWatch is on a mission to democratize remote sensing data through a simple user experience. Every day, trillions of pixels of Earth observation imagery are captured by satellites orbiting our planet. New applications for this data are …
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The Amazon Fsx for Lustre team have managed to turn what used to be a multi-year process to buy and build a Lustre filesystem, into a simple process with a launch button on the front. It’s hard to overstate the pain that this saves, …
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Charlie Gruenweld, our newest Principal Engineer in the HPC org, took advantage of the new API in ParallelCluster and a few dozen years of web development revolutions to build a snappy UI for creating and managing clusters that makes it …
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