On Jan 29, 2004, at 11:35 AM, Mamoon Kundi wrote: > Folks, > Can u shed some light no pros/cons of using e.g. 32-bit vs 64-bit cpus > with BioBrew-1.0 distro. > > Also what do u recommend viz-a-viz hardware that performs best and is > robust with BioBrew distribution in regards to e.g. per node : > > 1. Single or Dual CPU machine > 2. 32-bit or 64-bit cpu (intel, amd) ? > 3. Recommended motherboard memory ? > 4. Recommended motherboard hard-disk (if any) size ? > > I am still fuzzy on whats the 'recommended' HW configuration for NPACI > rocks cluster distribution ...? > > In other words how does a node look like, just the motherboard with CPU > or is there on-board RAM and HD ? > > Your input ... Please. > > I mean whats a good HW configuration for the life sciences. Has anyone > done some benchmarks ? Benchmarks are a tricky thing. I would look into Joe Landman's Bioinformatics Benchmarking toolkit at Bioinformatics.org. Glen > > -Rgds > Mamoon Kundi. > > _______________________________________________ > BioBrew-Users mailing list > BioBrew-Users at bioinformatics.org > https://bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/BioBrew-Users > > Glen Otero, Ph.D. Linux Prophet 619.917.1772