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 > > _______________________________________________ > Bioclusters maillist - Bioclusters@bioinformatics.org > https://bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/bioclusters >