...without knowing a lot more about your scenario its hard to give any good recommendations... If you're not producing large volumes of primary data from devices in house you might want to see if Amazon EC2 to see if it might fit your needs. -- Mike Cariaso * BioTeam * http://www.bioteam.net ----- Original Message ---- From: Ahmed Moustafa <ahmed at pobox.com> To: bioclusters at bioinformatics.org Sent: Friday, October 19, 2007 10:16:33 AM Subject: [Bioclusters] Recommendations for building a cluster Hello! What would be your recommendations for building a cluster of ~20-30 machines with a budget of about $50K? I think more medium power machines would provide higher throughput than fewer super power machines, especially, while performing genome-wide analyses. What would you recommend for hardware brands and specs and OS? Thanks in advance! _______________________________________________ Bioclusters maillist - Bioclusters at bioinformatics.org https://bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/bioclusters