Hi folks: Sorry for the "spam", I will try to keep this short/simple. Basically some questions on needs for the computational folks. We are looking at what computational needs exist today and what people think they will need tomorrow, and of course, clusters and their ilk are a major factor in this. What we are curious about (either online or off-line) are to hear about what computational bottlenecks exist for your processes today, and what you perceive as rate-limiting factors for the future. As usual, we have our own particular biases, but we really want to hear from folks working in academic/industrial research and development, biotech/pharma, ... . Are computational bottlenecks the major problem you are running into today? What do you see in the future in terms of rate limiting efforts? If you had an "infinitely fast" cluster (like a blue-gene from IBM), how would like impact your work/processes? Our goal is to broadly sound out the community and see what people need. No sales people will call. This is mostly about making sure we are barking up the right trees, and are not off in left field in terms of our performance focus. We figured that the biocluster/biobb lists are good places to ask these questions, as most folks who are running/using clusters are doing so because they need the extra cycles that clusters offer. Thanks in advance! Joe -- Joseph Landman, Ph.D Founder and CEO Scalable Informatics LLC, email: landman at scalableinformatics.com web : http://www.scalableinformatics.com phone: +1 734 786 8423 fax : +1 734 786 8452 cell : +1 734 612 4615