Tag: Hardware

Computing, Hardware, Linux, networking, Server, software, ZFS

Improving transfer speeds for ZFS send/receive in a local network

I recently had to send a couple of ZFS file systems from one server to another, both running Ubuntu Linux 16.04. Since both servers were in the same trusted local network, there was no need for encryption. As various other websites will tell you, the fastest way to transfer data over a local network is […]

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Case Study, Computing, Hardware, Server

Case study: A small compute cluster for omics analysis

Several years ago we advised one of our clients, a research group in the field of genomics, on the acquisition of a compute server for their omics analyses. After helping them to select the most suitable machine configuration we were also offered to do the system administration and hardware maintenance of the machine, which we […]