[BioDarwin] BLASTN benchmarks

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

At 09:55 -0500 on 01/09/2003, you wrote:


>I have run some comparisons of BLASTN searches between Apple Xserves 
>(clustered and not clustered) vs large shared memory machines 
>(sorry, no intel comparisons).  See http://blastcompare.tamu.edu for 
>details.  Not surprisingly, the the Xserves were fastest at small 
>word size.

    It could have been interesting to perform the same tests with 
WU-BLAST instead of AG-BLAST. The tests I ran a while ago showed that 
WU-BLAST seemed to have a much better G4 optimization. I've heard 
that it deals very well with multiple processors as well.



	Corentin