[Bioclusters] SGI Altics or Beowulf w/OpenMOSIX?

[Jonathan B. Horen]

Shalom!

I've been informed that one of our "clients" -- a major Israeli academic 
institution -- is seriously considering the purchase of an SGI Altics 
"cluster" (4 or 8 CPUs, I don't know which) for use in their 
Bioinformatics department.

IIRC, most bioinformatics jobs are of the "embarrassingly-parallel" 
variety, and better suited to a COTS-cluster running GNU/Linux with the 
OpenMOSIX extensions.

Am I off-base, or should I try and prevent/delay this purchase?


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