[BiO BB] Bioinformatics Benchmark System version 3 released
Joe Landman
landman at scalableinformatics.com
Fri Aug 13 17:13:24 EDT 2004
Hi Martin:
This is definitely in the works. Should be ready shortly, and we will
announce then. Thanks!
Joe
On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 13:52:33 -0700, Martin Gollery wrote
> Thanks Joe. One addition that might be useful would be to have a space
> where people could post their results, with complete information about
> the system, of course. This would allow people to see how their system
> compares to any other.
>
> Marty
>
> Joe Landman wrote:
>
> > Version 3 of the Bioinformatics Benchmark System (BBS v3) has been
> > released. Many new features, bug fixes, and suggested changes have been
> > made. New benchmarks have been added and updated for mpiBLAST, HMMer,
> > NCBI BLAST, and others in the baseline tests. The version 1 tests are
> > still there if you wish to run them.
> >
> > The Bioinformatics Benchmark System is an attempt to build a flexible
> > and power testing framework, and meaningful tests, to enable end users
> > and vendors to probe the performance of their systems. As the most
> > important benchmark is your benchmark, and not a pre-packaged benchmark,
> > the system is specifically designed to allow you to easily modify or add
> > new tests.
> >
> > Moreover, the source to these tests are available under GPL, and are
> > hosted on Bioinformatics.org (http://bioinformatics.org/bbs) and
> > Scalable Informatics (http://www.scalableinformatics.com/BBS).
> >
> > For those who wish to run their own tests by hand without any testing
> > framework, the --dryrun switch will emit the final command line that
> > would be run.
> > Additional documentation on the XML input format is forthcoming. A
> > submission system for results, and baseline curation and data set
> > tagging will commence in short order. Better handling of errors is in
> > place, as are better IPC methods.
> >
> > You can pull the binary tarball from
> > http://downloads.scalableinformatics.com/downloads/bbs/bbsv3.tar.gz .
> > Please note that this includes data for a rather large mpiBLAST job. If
> > someone has a sizeable cluster they are willing to play with, mpiBLAST
> > installed and some time, we would like to see the speedup curve for 16 -
> > 256 nodes (or higher). We would be happy to help out with this.
> >
> > Joe
> >
>
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> Martin Gollery
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> Center For Bioinformatics
> University of Nevada at Reno
> Dept. of Biochemistry / MS330
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