[Bioperl-pipeline] FW: General questions

[Elia Stupka]

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


sounds good, thanks for the fast reply, pity you are not here at CSHL
Hinxton. I think we might give it a go for the fun of it (though we have
LSF) to write a wrapper for the biopipe system.

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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