I believe the PIO adds parallel input/output, because reading from disk is orders of magnitude slower . David Sigfredo Angulo Faculty DePaul University School of Computer science, Telecommunications, and Information Systems -----Original Message----- From: bioclusters-bounces+dangulo=cti.depaul.edu at bioinformatics.org on behalf of Daniel Xavier de Sousa Sent: Tue 8/22/2006 9:04 AM To: HPC in Bioinformatics Subject: Re: [Bioclusters] mpiBLAST-PIO Please, What is the difference between mpiBLAST and mpiBLAST-PIO? Thanks, Daniel Bernard Li <bli at bcgsc.ca> escreveu: mpiBLAST-PIO Hi guys: I was wondering if anybody on this list has done some performance tests with mpiBLAST-PIO? http://mpiblast.lanl.gov/ Thanks, Bernard _______________________________________________ Bioclusters maillist - Bioclusters at bioinformatics.org https://bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/bioclusters --------------------------------- Yahoo! Search Música para ver e ouvir: You're Beautiful, do James Blunt