On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 11:51, Joseph Landman wrote: > Possibly on an SMP, and that would be nice to see on this platform. > Unlikely on HT. For BLAST however, the Athlon does nicely, and the -j 2 > switch gives you 50-90% additional performance (search and algorithm > dependent) from what I have tried myself on non-pathological cases. ... on an SMP Athlon.... (sorry for the confusion) -- Joseph Landman, Ph.D Scalable Informatics LLC email: landman@scalableinformatics.com web: http://scalableinformatics.com phone: +1 734 612 4615