Amit Murthy wrote: [snip] > I am looking for suggestions from people as to what problems I should > select for the benchmarking. It will be helpful if the code for the bio > computing part is available open source and has already been > parallelized. > > Any suggestions/pointers will be helpful. [snip] I use an "embarrassingly parallel" BLAST solution myself, but Bill Pearson has a PVM version of fasta at ftp://ftp.virginia.edu/pub/fasta/. Warning: the readme file states that the latest version of fasta broke the PVM version, so you will have to try an earlier release. -- Eric Engelhard www.cvbig.org