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new class of security flaw was reported that impacts most processors including those that are used by cloud service providers csps such as amazon aws and microsoft azure the issue exploits the speculative execution optimizations in processors as a side channel attack that leak kernel memory meltdown cve 2017 5754 or user memory spectre cve 2017 5715 cve 2017 5753 at this point we have no evidence that this flaw has been exploited at dnanexus patching process and status we are actively working to address this flaw while minimizing any interruption in the dnanexus service we are working with our csps and vendors to receive test and deploy patches efficiently and reliably once available patches are rapidly deployed in our staging environment where automated functional and scalability tests are performed when the patch is verified it is deployed into our production environment without any expected downtime for the dnanexus service on january 3rd the csps have patched their hypervisors to prevent this class of flaw from leaking information between their cloud virtual instances this required a reboot of all dnanexus servers which was completed that same day we have been working with canonical the organization that supports the ubuntu operating system used at dnanexus canonical has released a meltdown patch that we are in the process of testing we will be deploying the patch in two phases to ensure meltdown cannot be exploited by a malicious dnanexus user app we will patch the worker fleet across all regions and clouds followed by deployment of the patch across all supporting systems once the patch has been verified it will be deployed into the worker fleet within 1 hour all new worker instances will take the patch all currently executing jobs will be allowed to complete to minimize disruption then we will initiate the patching process of our supporting systems which is expected to take 1 week to address spectre given the nature of the flaw we expect to receive multiple patches in the future we will work closely with our vendors to ensure the patches are deployed quickly while maintaining our high quality of service profiling the impact on compute performance for standard genomics tools the patches developed to mitigate this security flaw may cause certain applications to run slower this will impact all patched work whether conducted in dnanexus on local machines or in other cloud environments typical guidance from non genomics areas is a slowdown from 5 30 depending on domain the degree of impact depends on the type of computational operations and the only way to reliably determine this is empirically we have performed the exact same analyses on meltdown patched machines with several popular genomic tools to assess the impact our initial analysis indicates that most genomic analyses require around 5 more compute with the meltdown patch with a range of 5 10 we expect this to generalize to the most common types of genomic analysis fortunately this 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