Hi, I tried to run mpiblast with this command : mpirun -np 2 /opt/BioBrew/NCBI/6.1.0/bin/mpiblast --config-file=/opt/BioBrew/NCBI/6.1.0/etc/mpiblast.conf -p blastn -d ecoli.nt -i /root/test.fas -o blast_results.txt But it gave me this error: mv: cannot stat '/root/blast/ecoli.ntChNsWp': No such file or directory cp: cannot create regular file '/root/blast/ecoli.nt.00.nhr': Permission denied cp: cannot create regular file '/root/blast/ecoli.nt.00.nin': Permission denied cp: cannot create regular file '/root/blast/ecoli.nt.00.nsq': Permission denied cp: cannot create regular file '/root/blast/ecoli.nt.00.nnd': Permission denied cp: cannot create regular file '/root/blast/ecoli.nt.00.nni': Permission denied cp: cannot create regular file '/root/blast/ecoli.nt.00.nsd': Permission denied cp: cannot create regular file '/root/blast/ecoli.nt.00.nsi': Permission denied Error opening /root/blast/ecoli.ntChNsWp.nal With mpirun -v -np 2 /opt/BioBrew/NCBI/6.1.0/bin/mpiblast --debug --config-file=/opt/BioBrew/NCBI/6.1.0/etc/mpiblast.conf -p blastn -d ecoli.nt -i /root/test.fas -o blast_results.txt 24491 /opt/BioBrew/NCBI/6.1.0/bin/mpiblast running on n0 (o) 18435 /opt/BioBrew/NCBI/6.1.0/bin/mpiblast running on n1 blastall -p blastn -i /root/test.fas -o blast_test.txt -d /mnt/pvfs/ecoli.nt [blastall] FATAL ERROR: blast: Unable to open output file blast_results.txt Temp name base: /tmp/blast/ecoli.ntXXXXXX Got temp name: /tmp/blast/ecoli.ntrZvzGm mv: Cannot stat '/tmp/blast/ecoli.ntrZvzGm': No such file or directory Temp name base: /tmp/blast/blast_results.txt.1XXXXXX Got temp name: /tmp/blast/blast_results.txt.1E6sMMp Temp name base: /tmp/blast/test.fas.XXXXXX Got temp name: /tmp/blast/test.fas.B9Y1Ss blastall -p blastn -z 4652914 -i /tmp/blast/test.fasB9Y1Ss -0 /tmp/blast/blast_results.txt.1E6sMMp -d /tmp/blast/ecoli.ntrZvzGm -J -o /dev/null Sending 0 fragments. Fragment list sent. waiting for file size broadcast MPI_Recv: process in local group is dead (rank 1, MPI_COMM_WORLD) RANK ( 1, MPI_COMM_WORLD): call stack withinLAM: RANK ( 1, MPI_COMM_WORLD): - MPI_Recv() RANK ( 1, MPI_COMM_WORLD): - MPI_BCast() RANK ( 1, MPI_COMM_WORLD): - main() Does anyone knows what is the problem with it? Thank you _________________________________________________________________ Get 10mb of inbox space with MSN Hotmail Extra Storage http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-sg