[Bioperl-pipeline] FW: General questions

[Jim Kent]

For 20 machines you don't need the efficiency of parasol.
You may find that you prefer the interface though, which
has a couple of levels of error checking built in, and which
allows you to track batches of jobs as well as single jobs
quite easily.    The parasol documentation is the second
or third link off of
    http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/~kent/
and you can download it via the source and/or executables
links on the same page.

Best of luck with your research Mattieu.  Good to hear from
you again Elia.

Jim Kent
Genome Bioinformatics Group
University of California at Santa Cruz
----- Original Message -----
From: "Elia Stupka" <elia@fugu-sg.org>
To: "Wiepert, Mathieu" <Wiepert.Mathieu@mayo.edu>
Cc: <bioperl-pipeline@bioperl.org>; <kent@biology.ucsc.edu>
Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 9:32 AM
Subject: Re: [Bioperl-pipeline] FW: General questions


> > Also, is Parasol different than the other two packages you recommended
> > on your web pages, LSF and PBS?
>
> LSF is good but commercial, PBS has an open version that is crap and a
> commercial version PBSPro free for academics that you could try though it
> is not as good as PBS. Parasol is from Jim Kent, I haven't had a chance to
> try it yet, but would love to and I've heard is more efficient in
> scheduling becuase it has less overhead. Of course it doesn't have the
> fancyness of LSF but probably is better suited to your neesd anyway.
>
> I am cc:ing Jim to see what he comments.
>
> Elia
>
> >
> >
> > > It could get very hairy, why don't you get a scheduler
> > > system? How many
> > > CPUs do you have?
> >
> > We only have about 20 right now, though there are plans to grow it.  Saw the note on parasol.
Perhaps I don't understand the issues, but if I am on a remote machine, how is the scheduler going
to help that.  If I am on the cluster, then I can see the use, but once I get off and have to
remotely fire things off, a scheduler can handle that?  Thanks for educating me on this one, sorry I
am a bit fuzzy on these details.
> >
> > -Mat
> >
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