[Bioclusters] MPI clustalw

[Ognen Duzlevski]

> Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 21:30:49 -0400
> From: James Cuff <jcuff@broad.mit.edu>
> Reply-To: bioclusters@bioinformatics.org
> To: bioclusters@bioinformatics.org
> Subject: Re: [Bioclusters] MPI clustalw
>
> On May 7, 2004, at 11:36 AM, Michael Cariaso wrote:
>
> > After seeing this abstract
> >   http://bioinformatics.oupjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/20/7/1193
> > about a newly released MPI version of clustalw, coming out of of
> > University of Western Australia
> > I was wondering of anyone had any experience to compare it to this
> > version
> >
> > http://bioinformatics.oupjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/19/12/1585?
> > ijkey=12ACOyqyrKpFz&keytype=ref
> > coming from singapore?
>
> So here's my two pence on this.
>
> I never really got the whole benefit of mpi/pvm speed up deal for
> compute farms.  There I said it, I'm sorry.  :-)

As someone who wrote a pthreads version of clustalw 1.82
(http://bioinfo.pbi.nrc.ca/clustalw-smp) and then went on to try and do
the same by way of pvm, I have to agree with you. I didn't see it then and
I don't see it now :)

Ognen
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University of Missouri-Columbia