[Gmod-resources] Re: [GMOD-devel] Apple to give 5 mini-clusters

[Lincoln S. <ls...@cs...>]

A cluster of 4 nodes is not really going to be adequate for decent 
cross species comparison.  It would make a great test bed for a 
prototype MOD web site, though.  You would designate one of the nodes 
to run the database, another to run the web site, a third to run 
BLAST, and a fourth for developing the next release.

I think we can make a good argument for making the cluster into a 
hardware reference platform for a generic MOD, and skip the cross 
species comparison altogether unless someone like Jason thinks that 
we could an all-against-all BLAST across six species on a 4-node 
cluster in reasonable time.

I'm willing to do the writeup if I get to have the system in my 
office.

Lincoln

On Monday 10 May 2004 09:35 pm, Scott Cain wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm forwarding an email from Chris Dagdigian from the bioperl
> mailing list.  I think we could put together an application for
> GMOD to use both as a development box for GMOD applications as well
> as a compute cluster for cross species comparisons.  Would anybody
> be willing to take the lead?  The application deadline is June 13.
>
> Thanks,
> Scott
>
> From Chris:
>
> Hi folks,
>
> Apologies for the semi off topic posting but I think it may be
> appropriate because I know lots of people doing really clever
> informatics stuff tend to be on the open-bio.org mailing lists.
>
> I want to make sure many of the small group, individuals and DIY
> types hear about this as they can probably benefit the most from a
> influx of hardware.
>
> In short, Apple just announced a program to give away 5 fully
> provisioned mini-clusters (4 Xserve G5 nodes) in a judged process
> specifically aimed at bioinformatics types. Awards are announced on
> 29 June 2004.
>
> The URL is here:
> http://www.apple.com/science/clusteraward/
>
> Regards,
> Chris

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Lincoln D. Stein
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
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