Bioperl: off topic Beowulf question

[David Block]

Us Too!
Beowulf Cluster
Blast and other tools.

NRC-PBI
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

Dave Block
Bioinformatics Group
Gene Expression Lab

On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Keith Allen wrote:

> Hey folks,
> 
>     sorry to wade in with an off topic question, but I know this stuff
> is
> central to what a lot of you think about, at least from time to time.
> We're
> considering putting together a Beowulf cluster as a dedicated Blast
> server,
> but we'd really like to talk to someone who's already done this to find
> out
> what's worked well and what hasn't.  Specifically we need to know how
> people are handling job scheduling and load balancing, what sort of
> special
> measures were needed to compile Blast for the cluster, and any other
> useful
> tidbits anyone might have to share.
> 
> We're planning to put NCBI Blast on this server, but we're very
> interested
> to know if there are folks who think WU-Blast is better suited.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 
>                                         -Keith Allen
>                                         Bioinformatics Scientist
>                                         Paradigm Genetics
>                                         RTP, NC
>                                         kallen@paragen.com
> 
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