[Bioclusters] Versions of Blast that run on a cluster?

Bernard Li bli at bcgsc.ca
Wed Jan 5 13:08:30 EST 2005


Hi Malay:

> Oops I forgot to mention the third option. This is for 
> production machine for very high end scaling up and requires 
> ample amount of disc space in each node. This is to have each 
> node it's local copy of database. And use input spitting 
> through SGE. This the best way to scale up to ~1000 jobs at a 
> time. But because of database maintanance issue, this method 
> is advisable of for dedicated BLAST farm.

You meant 'input splitting' right?  And how would you accomplish that
using SGE?  By scripting it in your job script?

Thanks,

Bernard


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