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

[Allen D. <all...@uc...>]

On Tue, 11 May 2004, Scott Cain wrote:

> On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 12:59, Lincoln Stein wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> :-)  I was thinking in my basement.  I suppose it may not be heavy duty
> enough to do all v all BLASTs (although, if it were BLASTP, it might
> have a shot).  The app could say that it could be used as test cluster
> for determining needs for bigger (imply, Apple) cluster.

i was thinking in our server room, we have gigabit uplink :).  i agree
that we can make a strong argument here for a GMOD site test bed.  i do
think though that lincoln would be an appropriate person to spearhead the
application composition with his superb writing skillz.

-allen

> 
> Scott
> 
> > 
> > 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
>