[Bioclusters] blat and hmmer on some architectures?

[Tim Cutts]

On 24 Oct 2005, at 7:44 pm, Vsevolod (Simon) Ilyushchenko wrote:

> 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?

I don't see why not, as long as you're using a suitable compiler.   
You'll just need to work out what the appropriate compiler options  
are.  HMMER will probably work fine on ppc64, since it already  
supports other 64-bit architectures fine.  The same goes for BLAT -  
it works fine on Alpha for us, so I see no reason why it shouldn't  
compile OK on other 64-bit architectures.

You'll have fun finding the bazillion places in Jim Kent's makefiles  
that you need to make the changes though.

Tim

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