Hi all, has anyone got a method for calculating predicted estimates for the time it takes to run BLAST jobs using NCBI BLAST and also mpiBLAST? I am setting up a job submission system on our local grid and one of our clusters requires you to provide an estimate of the predicted runtime so that the job can be positioned accordingly in the queue. I just need a formula to work out the time it takes to run a single job on a single processor. A formula would presumably take into account things like the length and number of the input queries, the size and makeup of the target database (i.e. number and length of sequences contained in this), the similarities between the query and the target sequences and local hardware parameters (processors, memory, local network speeds etc). There may be stuff about this in the literature but I haven't seen any - if anyone knows of references that would also be greatly appreciated. cheers Micha -- -------------------------------------------------- Dr Micha M Bayer Grid Developer, BRIDGES Project National e-Science Centre, Glasgow Hub 246c Kelvin Building University of Glasgow Glasgow G12 8QQ Scotland, UK Email: michab@dcs.gla.ac.uk Project home page: http://www.brc.dcs.gla.ac.uk/projects/bridges/ Personal Homepage: http://www.brc.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~michab/ Tel.: +44 (0)141 330 2958