[Bioclusters] Oscar Linux cluster and Local Blast Server

[Steve Gaudet]

Hello Lance,


> At Massachusetts General Hospital, we are looking to set up a local=20
> blast server, preferably with the NCBI algorithm, on a computing
> cluster. We have installed the OSCAR clustering package
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/oscar/
> on a small
> test cluster of computers running Red Hat Linux 7.2 on Intel. Does=20
> anyone know of an
> open source blast-for-cluster package that would run under this=20
> cluster management suite or is there a
> commercial package you are already running that you think is=20
> worthwhile??? We are also considering Apple's Xserve with the G4=20
> accelerated blast to compare against the above system.
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Have you heard of TurboBlast by Turbogenomics?  I believe they have an
evaluation program.

http://www.turbogenomics.com/products/turboblast_index.html=20

Regards,

Steve Gaudet=20
Linux Solutions Engineer
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