Doug, Do you know why your numbers are so different from Joe's numbers posted here? <http://bioinformatics.org/bbs/> For some tests, you are significantly faster, for some you are significantly slower. I'm just curious about how people explain differences in these benchmark reports. I'm getting ready to try again to run these benchmarks on our system, so any help you could provide would be great. Thanks, -Alan Doug: 1,1,1641 2,1,1647 2,2,1685 3,4,3289 3,1,3296 3,3,3332 3,2,3335 4,1,863 5,1,1683 5,2,1690 6,1,848 Joe: 1,1,2167 2,1,1361 2,2,2747 3,1,1018 3,2,2972 3,4,3180 3,3,4380 4,1,391 5,2,4011 5,1,4015 6,1,1988 -- - Alan Kilian <alank(at)timelogic.com> Director of Bioinformatics, TimeLogic Corporation 763-449-7622