Hey, can I take a poll? I'm learning that many enterprises are adverse to outsourcing BLAST, for instance, even if it means freeing up maxed out resources. I haven't quite figured that out, but I'm sure someone will educate me. Larry? :-) Furthermore, funding may not be such that acquiring additional hardware resources is a viable "immediate" option. Perhaps that's why GRID computing is so attractive, but GRID computing comes with it's own limitations. What if enterprises could tap unused resources on its network without the scheduling problems, data collisions, and I/O problems? What if users could propagate a "grid-type" application automatically from one node and what if the application could dynamical reassign resources on the fly when users log on to nodes in use by the "virtual supercomputer"? Is this of interest in the bioinformatics community? Please educate me. I really want to know what users need and want. Thanks. Kathleen Erickson Massively Parallel Technologies, Inc. Got HOWARD? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://bioinformatics.org/pipermail/bioclusters/attachments/20060120/800482cb/attachment.html