[BioBrew Users] Recommended Rocks HW configuration.

[Glen Otero]

On Jan 29, 2004, at 11:35 AM, Mamoon Kundi wrote:

> Folks,
> Can u shed some light no pros/cons of using e.g. 32-bit vs 64-bit cpus
> with BioBrew-1.0 distro.
>
> Also what do u recommend viz-a-viz hardware that performs best and is
> robust with BioBrew distribution in regards to e.g. per node :
>
> 1. Single or Dual CPU machine
> 2. 32-bit or 64-bit cpu (intel, amd) ?
> 3. Recommended motherboard memory ?
> 4. Recommended motherboard hard-disk (if any) size ?
>
> I am still fuzzy on whats the 'recommended' HW configuration for NPACI
> rocks cluster distribution ...?
>
> In other words how does a node look like, just the motherboard with CPU
> or is there on-board RAM and HD ?
>
> Your input ... Please.
>
> I mean whats a good HW configuration for the life sciences.  Has anyone
> done some benchmarks ?

Benchmarks are a tricky thing. I would look into Joe Landman's 
Bioinformatics Benchmarking toolkit at Bioinformatics.org.

Glen

>
> -Rgds
> Mamoon Kundi.
>
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