[BiO BB] Re: [Bioclusters] General question on time consuming problems

[Mikhail Fursov]

Moreover I want to base my PhD on string comparison algorithms and
similarity searches. So, someday, I have to write a tool or a plugin
that looks for a repeats and visualize them. If  only simple repeats
in genome is what you need I can write such kind a tool in a nearest
week. (use my email instead of a board)

Mikhail Fursov.
On 4/22/05, Tim Cutts <tjrc at sanger.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> On 20 Apr 2005, at 7:22 pm, George White wrote:
> 
> > The other problem is that many the real-world clusters are lucky to get
> > 50% uptime.  The one down the hall was fried when the A/C died.  They
> > fixed all that, took a couple weeks to get a new A/C installed, and
> > then a
> > cable to the RAID stopped working, so now they have to get the cable
> > and
> > hope the files weren't damaged.  You hear the success stories from
> > people
> > who have been lucky with A/C hardware, etc., but there are also lots of
> > cluster owners who are swamped by the upkeep and or poorly maintained
> > physical plant (power problems, A/C, etc.).
> 
> But then, as you say, if your problem is really embarrassingly
> parallel, and you code it right, losing a few nodes here and there
> isn't a problem.  One of the nice things about embarrassingly parallel
> problems is that they tend to allow for gradual loss of capacity.  It's
> quite useful for us; it allows us to wait for a number of nodes to fail
> before we batch them up and send them back for repair.  This saves a
> lot of money in support costs, as well as effort on our part.
> 
> Tim
> 
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