[Bioclusters] Need some advice on a cluster for EST/cDNA assembly, clustering

[Malik Yousef]

Hello,
I suggest to you to contact the liniac cluster at UPENN. I'm using this
system and it seem wounderfull.

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Malik Yousef,Ph.D 
The Wistar Institute 
University of Pennsylvania 
3601 Spruce St. 
Phila. PA, 19104 
Phone: 215-898-3902


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From: bioclusters-bounces+yousef=wistar.upenn.edu at bioinformatics.org
[mailto:bioclusters-bounces+yousef=wistar.upenn.edu at bioinformatics.org] On
Behalf Of Michael Chute
Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 3:28 PM
To: Clustering, compute farming & distributed computing in life science
informatics
Subject: Re: [Bioclusters] Need some advice on a cluster for EST/cDNA
assembly,clustering

I forgot to include a link to the info on the workgroup cluster..

http://www.apple.com/xserve/cluster/workgroupcluster/

Gary Van Domselaar wrote:

>Hey Gang,
>
>I've been called in at the last moment to "consult" on the purchase of a
>cluster for a sequencing project.  Admittedly, I know nothing about life
>science clusters, despite having been subscribed to this list from its
>inception.  I am not making any money on this consulting, just helping out
>a neighbouring academic lab.  So what I know at this point is that they
>have about $Cdn 200K to spend.  They hae already talked to Sun, and Sun is
>offering them a "sweetheart" deal for (something) at about $120k.  My only
>exposure is to a G4/G5 cluseter from BioTeam.  I am impressed with it
>andit works really well for my purposes, and Im guessing it would work
>well for theirs too.  I'm guessing a linux cluster would perfrom nicely
>too. The lab currently does not have a bioinforatician, but I thnik they
>have money for one.  I'll probably just end up pointing them to Glen, Joe
>, and Chris, but any advice, suggestions, and pointers to where I can get 
>a little more familiarity, well shucks, that would really be swell.
>
>Decidedly,
>
>g.
>--
>Gary Van Domselaar, PhD.
>Postdoctoral Fellow, Computing Science
>and Biological Sciences
>University of Alberta
>Edmonton, AB, Canada
>Phone: 780-492-5969
>
>
>Assistant Director, Bioinformatics.Org
>gary at bioinformatics.org
>
>
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