On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 23:26, Chris Dagdigian wrote: > The biggest performance bottleneck in 'bioclusters' is usually disk I/O > throughput. Bio people tend to do lots of things that involve streaming > massive text and binary files through the CPU and RAM (think running a > blast search). The speed of your storage becomes the rate limiting > performance bottleneck. Often there will be terabytes of this sort of > data laying around so the "/data" volume is usually a NFS mount. Chris, Thanks for all the information. We're building a cluster and this is a great set of pointers for my team to look carefully at. -- Kiran Jonnalagadda http://www.pobox.com/~jace