Bio-Linux and other bioinformatics tools available for EC2, Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud, were recently highlighted on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) blog. Customized Amazon machine images (AMIs) allow for the packaging and rapid, web based deployment of the data sets and tools needed for these specialized tasks. Because AMIs can be saved, reproducing past results is simplified and because these can also be shared, the computation environment of a particular analysis can be easily replicated both from within and outside your organization.
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AMIs for Bioinformatics on AWS
by adminMigrating an OpenVZ Virtual Machine
by Michael KlatskyOne of the great features of OpenVZ is the ability to easily migrate a virtual machine(VM) to another server. While identifying the best methods to perform this task recently, I read about two tools to accomplish this task: vzdump, and vzmigrate. Read the rest of this entry »
Busy holidays, and back to blogging
by Michael KlatskyIt’s been a long, busy holiday- and now time to resume blogging. My latest interest is testing our mysql servers using mysqlslap. While a great tool, it is unfortunately only distributed with MySQL 5.1.4 and above. However, many of our servers are in the 5.0 release, with some in the 4.x release. What I did was grab the latest 5.1.x version of mysql, compile it statically and test it out on a MYSQL 5.0.45 version, and it worked just fine. I have yet to test it on another machine, or against a version other than 5.0.45. I’ll update when I do.
Here are the steps I took:
1) wget “http://dev.mysql.com/get/Downloads/MySQL-5.1/mysql-5.1.30.tar.gz/from/http://mysql.llarian.net/”
2) tar -xf mysql-5.1.30.tar.gz&&cd mysql-5.1.30
3) ./configure –without-server –disable-shared
4) make&&cp -i ./client/mysqlslap /usr/local/bin/
