[BiO BB] Anybody knows the usage stats for different apps in sequence alignment & molecular dynamics?

[Chris Dwan (CCGB)]

>       Our misison is to enable individual researchers and small
>       labs to speed up their research and level the playing field
>       with the 'big guys' who can afford throwing 100K per one
>       acceleration module...

My impression is that computational speed is the limiting factor for only
a small number of groups.  I think that most researchers remain interface
and data management bound.

I could be way off base with this, and I'm curious to hear about other
experiences:  I believe that (as is usually true with high performance
computing) 5% of the researchers take up 95% of the cluster time, and the
other 95% are doing the best they can to manage even a rather small set of
results.

Am I wrong?  Are lots of people sitting on their hands waiting for BLAST
(and HMMER, and InterPro, and meta-java-dock-o-matic-whatever) to
complete?

-Chris Dwan
 The University of Minnesota