FaaS - Failure as a Service

Brock Palen the founder of ShepTech LLC, has worked in High Performance Computing (HPC) starting in 2004. In 2002 he founded MLDS-Networks.com a Joomla! and Linux consulting and hosting Provider. In 2009 he started along with Jeff Squyres RCE-cast.com a podcast focusing on HPC topics.

Friday, October 30, 2020

AMD Killed ARM in the Data Center

When I first started in HPC, we had a software title that came on physical media in a three ring binder. It covered many platforms, Solaris...

Sunday, October 18, 2020

Parallel Compressor Performance for Science - pigz, lbzip2, xz

UPDATE : At requet of a friend I looked into zstd and wow it's a great option. As it becomes more ubiquitous it should likely replace mo...

Thursday, September 17, 2020

Archivetar - A better tar for Big Data

Challenge: Trade-offs of Cost/Bit vs Bits/File and Performance In the options of Tape, HDDs, SSD, and NVMe, there are significant trade off...

Monday, January 22, 2018

Automating Jetstream with Terraform

Jetstream is an OpenStack cluster for science that researchers can request access to via XSEDE which traditionally been known only as an HP...

Wednesday, May 31, 2017

Job Posting

Join our group! http://careers.umich.edu/job_detail/142372/research_cloud_administrator_intermediate Looking for work using containers (...

Opportunities for public cloud in research

It comes down to $/performance and government regulations / sponsor requirements. I covered these in others. So what is my read of the tea ...

Data Providers Need to Catch up to Cloud

In my recent project looking to see if we could migrate to cloud in this generation for HPC another topic kept arising. We cannot yet...

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Brock Palen: Ann Arbor, Michigan

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