Hi Lars: That is mentioned on the mpiBLAST page, and they have a patch for it... Take a look at one of the configure script options. Joe On Thu, 2003-05-08 at 04:31, Lars G.T.Jorgensen wrote: > Here are some more questions about mpiBLAST. > We have a 240 node cluster where we are running different bio-things > on... > > But when I tried using mpi blast with a database of about ~120 megs > and 32 nodes it wount split the database into 6 fragments and some of > the .00 files where missing. I tried upgrading the blast tools. But > when I did that i created a file called '(null).nal' ... > > Basicly I'm getting a bit tiered of Blast as a software package... > > Can't someone convince NCBI to use autotools insted of csh? -- Joseph Landman, Ph.D Scalable Informatics LLC email: landman@scalableinformatics.com web: http://scalableinformatics.com phone: +1 734 612 4615