I am playing around with mpiblast again and have somewhat of a problem. Last time I played with it, mpiformatdb moved the segments to the shared directory. Then when I ran mpirun -np 20 mpiblast for the first time, I remember it moved the individual segments to each nodes local storage, then it ran blastall under MPI. I just updated to 1.1.0 of mpiBLAST, and just mpiformatdb works. When I start my *job* mpirun just hangs and prints to STDOUT. I have to manually kill it with CTRL-Z. What am I missing here? Oh... instant brainstorm here. I think its a permissions issue, let me run it and chown the local storage. I remember I used /tmp before, now its a dedicated hard drive. BRB... -- Jeremy Mann jeremy@biochem.uthscsa.edu University of Texas Health Science Center Bioinformatics Core Facility http://www.bioinformatics.uthscsa.edu Phone: (210) 567-2672