Hi, Our lab is starting to test several server architectures by compiling and timing programs like blast, blat and hmmer. The setups are Darwin, regular i686, Intel's and AMD's X86_64 and IBM's ppc64. I've found that blat only has the i686 machine type as a compilation option - not x86_64, and of course not Darwin or ppc64. Hmmer is smarter better - it only lacks support for ppc64 (it has plain ppc though). Does anyone know if it's possible to compile blat and hmmer on these architectures? Thanks, Simon -- Simon (Vsevolod ILyushchenko) simonf at cshl.edu http://www.simonf.com "Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought." Henri Bergson