MAD 3.0:
- The MAD service continues to be made available, now being featured as “MAD 3.0” on an entirely new hardware architecture on Dell/EMC equipment. The basis of the platform is to ingest data via SMB/CIFS mounts on a fast Isilon storage cluster, and that data is then aged off to our deep, S3-compatible ECS storage platform using a technology called Isilon CloudPools. The overall service is vendor supported, on new hardware, and will generally be much faster and more stable than the original implementation. Once the platform is fully production ready, we will be prepared to line up existing MAD customers on the legacy hardware for migration. We have engineered an excellent parallel-path egest process to push data from the old to the new platform at an accelerated pace. We can be contacted for more information about moving to MAD 3.0.
3D acceleration and remote desktops:
- Remote Linux desktops connected to the ERISOne compute cluster are available to researchers. Until now we have not had GPU hardware acceleration for 3D graphics on these desktops. We are now piloting GPU hardware acceleration - this makes it possible for MRI researchers to visualize 3D renderings directly on images stored on the cluster. Contact @email for details. Additional, large memory, remote desktops are coming soon: https://rc.partners.org/kb/article/2187
May 4th, 2017 Research Technical Lunch:
- Daniel Guettler, Lead Software Architect, Research Informatics Core, The Center for Systems Biology, MGH will present “Application development in the Cloud era”. Daniel will discuss the complete development life cycle in use at CSB including his use of GitHub, automated builds and tests on CodeShip, automated code review on CodeClimate, and automatic deployment.
- Herbert Harrison, PHS Corporate Manager of Enterprise Delivery Services and his team will give an overview of their department and will discuss current initiatives and field your questions on Active Directory, Citrix XenApp/XenDesktop, Database, Disaster Recovery, Epic Client Systems, and LRS printing.