[Bioclusters] cluster hardware question

[Duzlevski, Ognen]

Kiran,

care to share your experiences? I am always keen on learning more so that
I don't make the wrong decisions :)

Are you a bioinformatics shop?

Thanks,
Ognen

On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Kiran Jonnalagadda wrote:

> On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 23:26, Chris Dagdigian wrote:
> > The biggest performance bottleneck in 'bioclusters' is usually disk I/O
> > throughput. Bio people tend to do lots of things that involve streaming
> > massive text and binary files through the CPU and RAM (think running a
> > blast search). The speed of your storage becomes the rate limiting
> > performance bottleneck. Often there will be terabytes of this sort of
> > data laying around so the "/data" volume is usually a NFS mount.
>
> Chris,
>
> Thanks for all the information. We're building a cluster and this is a
> great set of pointers for my team to look carefully at.
>
> --
> Kiran Jonnalagadda
> http://www.pobox.com/~jace
>
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