On Thursday 25 September 2008 17:26:51 Joe Landman wrote: > Glen Beane wrote: > > > > [...] > > > Hi Glen: > > > > BLAST uses mmap'ed IO. This has some interesting ... interactions > > ... with parallel file systems. > > > > > > for what its worth, we use Paracel BLAST and are also considering > > mpiBLAST-pio to take advantage of a parallel file system > > Cool. mpiBLAST also uses mmap'ed IO though. That hasn't changed. They > just spread the IO to each process to take advantage of the parallel > file systems. > > We have a nice RPM build for mpi-BLAST-pio that a number of folks are > using. You can grab it from > http://downloads.scalableinformatics.com/downloads/mpiblast/ . And a > shameless plug for mpiHMMer: http://www.mpihmmer.org/ while we are at it :) > > Joe
Have you looked at GlusterFS: http://www.gluster.org/docs/index.php/GlusterFS Or maybe GFarm: http://datafarm.apgrid.org/ They are both good solutions. Marian _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
