[BiO BB] Parallel Blast

[Rich Hickey]

All,
         I figured I would give you a reply. The full discussion thread 
should be included below. Basically I Asked about a full MPI paralleled 
version of the BLAST application. The only response I have received so far 
is by the company MSC software that produces a package called MSC.LIFE. All 
I know so far is what I have learned from the sales brochure and a quick 
conversation with Dr. Landman. It appears that instead of a parallel 
version of BLAST, MSC has produced a full parallel suite of software which 
includes the BLAST application. Here is the webpage if you are interested. 
http://www.mscsoftware.com/hpc/lifesciences/life.cfm . I am in the 
unfortunate position of being a computer expert (use term loosely) trying 
like sin to learn enough Genetics/Biology to effectively make decisions and 
support the researchers in this field.

         That's the short of it so far. If anyone has any comments or 
questions give me a shout. Sometimes it's not a matter of what you know, 
but who you know.




At 08:56 AM 3/18/2002 -0500, Jack da Silva wrote:
>How about sharing your possible solution with the rest of us?
>
>Joe Landman wrote:
> >
> > Rich:
> >
> >   I will contact you off list.  I think we have something that might fit
> > your needs.
> >
> > Joe
> >
> > On Fri, 2002-03-15 at 20:00, Rich Hickey wrote:
> > > Question. Does anyone know of a parallized version of BLAST. Not threaded
> > > or OpenMP. But a true MPI version? Or a combination of OpenMP/MPI. I'm
> > > looking for something I can run on an IBM SP complex. The only versions I
> > > can seem to find are all threaded. Which is great if I only want to use 4
> > > CPU's at a time. But what I want to do is run 32 4 CPU machines at a
> > > shot.  Thanks in advance for any help.
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Rich Hickey
> > > IBM Systems Analyst
> > > Arctic Region Supercomputing Center
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> > > Fairbanks AK. 99775-6020
> > > (907) 474-5151 hickey at arsc.edu
> > >
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> > Joseph Landman, Ph.D.
> > Senior Scientist,
> > MSC Software High Performance Computing
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> > messaging       : page_joe at mschpc.dtw.macsch.com
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Rich Hickey
IBM Systems Analyst
Arctic Region Supercomputing Center
910 Yukon Ave Suite 106
Fairbanks AK. 99775-6020
(907) 474-5151 hickey at arsc.edu