Hi Mike: Make sure you configure mpiblast to use the shared memory device (ch_shmem) rather than the ethernet (ch_p4), or similar devices if you are using MPICH. Dont worry about assignments of partitions to nodes, that should not be an issue for this machine. Joe -- Joseph Landman, Ph.D Scalable Informatics LLC, email: landman at scalableinformatics.com web : http://scalableinformatics.com phone: +1 734 612 4615 ---------- Original Message ----------- From: Mike Muratet <muratem at eng.uah.edu> To: mpiblast-users at sourceforge.net, bioclusters at bioinformatics.org Sent: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 11:13:28 -0600 (CST) Subject: [Bioclusters] mpiblast on SGI Altix > Greetings > > Does anyone have any experience with mpiblast on the SGI Altix and can > you offer any suggestions for configuring jobs? The Altix 350 has 16- > CPU nodes with shared memory. The machine I'm using has 56 total CPUs. > Can anyone offer any advice for how many database partitions to use, > and how they get assigned to nodes/CPUs? > > Thanks > > Mike > > _______________________________________________ > Bioclusters maillist - Bioclusters at bioinformatics.org > https://bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/bioclusters ------- End of Original Message -------