> One thing I recommend is a healthy network connection, and lots of > nfsd's... Well the first time yes, or maybe. So your saying it always reads the database from the shared directory? Right now, I have individual segments in each nodes local storage. >>I just updated to 1.1.0 of mpiBLAST, and just mpiformatdb works. When I > When in doubt, insert an strace into the mix... Its a permissions issue, if I run it with sudo, it works.. Wow, I forgot how fast mpiBLAST is ;) Back to more testing. I am going to see if I remove the contents of the shared directory, if it will still run. -- Jeremy Mann jeremy@biochem.uthscsa.edu University of Texas Health Science Center Bioinformatics Core Facility http://www.bioinformatics.uthscsa.edu Phone: (210) 567-2672