[Bioclusters] Is the "OR" job dependency useful??

[Malay]

Rayson Ho wrote:
> Gridengine currently has the "AND" operator job dependency:
> 
> A,B -> C
> 
> ie. we need to wait for job A and B finish before we start job C.
> 
> There are discussions on the SGE dev mailing list about adding the OR
> job dependency:
> 
> A|B -> C
> 
> So job C will start as soon as job A or job B finishes.
> 
> I am wondering if this is useful in bioinformatics job flows??
> 

As far as bioinformatics goes I am afraid most of the bioinformatics 
applications are embarassingly independant :) Although such dependancy 
resolution issues will have it's niche application but I guess it's very 
limited as far as bioinformatics goes.

Malay