[BiO BB] parallel BLAST

[Gary Bader]

Hi,
	Parallel does not necessarily mean distributed across more than one
machine.  NCBI's version of BLAST is parallelized nicely using threads and
can be run on multiprocessor machines.  The default is set to run using 4
CPUs if they are available because the performance/CPU ratio decreases when
running on more than 4 (last I heard).

Gary

At 08:50 PM 01/11/2002 +0100, Jaroslaw Zola wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I would like to know if there exists parallel implementation of BLAST
>algorithms.
>
>J.Z.
>
>
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