Below you will find pages that utilize the taxonomy term “health”
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When the revolution hits in force ...
Our machines will be there, helping power the genomics pipelines to tremendous performance. Performance is an enabling feature. Without it you cannot even begin to hope to perform massive scale analytics. With it, you can dream impossible dreams. This article came out talking about a massive performance analytics pipeline at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Ohio. This pipeline runs on a cluster attached to Scalable Informatics FastPath Unison storage. This is a very dense, very fast system, interconnected with Mellanox FDR Infiniband, Chelsio 40GbE, and leveraging BeeGFS from thinkparq.
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Three years
Its been 3 years to the day since I wrote this. As we’ve been doing before this happened, and after this happened, we are going to a TSO concert on the anniversary of the surgery. Its an affirmation of sorts. I can tell you that 3 years in, it has changed me in some fairly profound ways … I no longer take some things for granted. I try to spend more time with the family, do more things with them.
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Definition of vacation
… appears to be normal working hours from a location that is not your office, home … I am supposed to be on vacation. A short one, as there are simply far too many things on my plate (notice my recent posting frequency?). Instead, I am trying to solve problems for customers, sign NDAs, handle support calls. What was the purpose of vacation or holiday again? I keep forgetting.
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When you cross the rubicon
… from hobby and sport, to something more. I’ve traveled 1k miles for karate tournaments (to participate). I have not, as of yet, crossed an international border for one. That changes tomorrow. I went through a promotion test last week with an injured intercostal muscle. This caused all sorts of joy … no really … and had me think that I had a serious kidney stone flare up. The pain was in the same region, and toradol helped, which drew me to a rapid, and incorrect conclusion as to the pain.