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With the continued growth of data at EMBL-EBI, the Systems Infrastructure team within the Technical Services Cluster has been looking to alleviate the capacity pressures on some of our increasingly overloaded storage systems. Due to the number of users and the frequency of use, it is critical…
The MGnify team at EMBL-EBI, led by Rob Finn recently made use of cloud resources to increase the throughput of their metagenome assembly pipeline. The pipeline requires access to high memory machines, i.e. machines with 1TB or more of memory. EMBL-EBI currently only has six of these, and they are…
An end-to-end demonstration of the distributed workflow execution capability as part of the ELIXIR GA4GH Cloud Platform was showcased at the GA4GH 6th Plenary Meeting organised by ELIXIR Europe in Basel, Switzerland. The work was a joint effort between five ELIXIR partners and coordinated by our…
At EMBL-EBI we have recently upgraded the Audio Visual equipment in a large percentage of our meeting rooms. Here are a few things we considered during this process, whilst working with our AV integrator.
WYSIWYG: What You See si ahwt u egt. Visual text editors on the web are infamously unreliable. That’s partly as it’s a hard problem — how can a 3rd party JS library accurately style content not knowing where, how or when the content will be displayed? But while WYSIWYGs…
The rise of cloud computing has disrupted the way businesses build and purchase their IT infrastructure. Obtaining just the right amount of resources around the world with a few clicks (or API calls) unlocks completely new operational scenarios. Cloud computing, when done right, can solve…
What is USB-C? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Many new devices are now sporting the shiny new USB-C (USB Type-C) ports, consolidating power, external displays and data over a single, reversible connector.
Depending on your work, you may find yourself needing to video conference with one or many people. While almost any video platform and kit can work great for one-to-one video calls, I’d like to share lessons learnt in my previous roles and during my time in EMBL-EBI’s Web Development…
In this post on web analytics, we will share our experience and explore various aspects of how we in the Web Development team address client-side data collection and analysis. We will also provide a set of recommendations that help tackle common issues and present some use-cases that…
This post describes how to build a prototype dashboard that displays, in real time, statistics from the new Apache Kafka Streams API. Summary Apache Kafka is a well known distributed messaging system. It is usually used together with Apache Spark to compute statistics from logs. However, since…