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

[Brian O'C. <boc...@uc...>]

Allen Day wrote:

>On Tue, 11 May 2004, Scott Cain wrote:
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>>On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 12:59, Lincoln Stein wrote:
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>>>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.
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>>:-)  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.
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>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.
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>-allen
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I was just saying we need to get a Mac to test the GMOD install :-)

--Brian