Hi all,
I am a BSc (bioinformatics) student and for a project i am going to setup a
'biological' cluster computer. I've got a few question regarding OSCAR setup
and package creation.
As Linux distribution i'm going to use Fedora. What is the latest version of
Fedora that is (fully) supported? I think that FC5 is still the latest
officially supported distribution, but on this mailing list i read some
threads about installing upon FC6 and FC7. What is the best version to use?
To make the cluster more biological i am planning to install software like
BLAST, ClustalW, contig assembly programs, etc... (with hopefully MPI
support). I saw on the GSoC2007 projects page that a similar project is
listed (OSCAR Bioinformatics Toolkit), so i suppose such system is still
needed, because two years ago another student as worked on this (
http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg04121.html
). Am i right? So is there some starting material available and what were
the problems he experienced?
I also looked at creating packages for OSCAR, but the howto i found on the
website seems a bit outdated (2004). I think i read on the mailinglist that
the packaging system for OSCAR 5.0 (and 5.1) has changed. Where can i find
updated instructions for creating packages? Isn't it also possible to
install software on the nodes from a tarball with the C3 tools?
For 'the other cluster toolkit', ROCKS, there exists a roll with
bioinformatic RPMS (BioBrew). Although i prefer OSCAR, are these RPMS not
compatible with OSCAR? ( ftp://ftp.bioinformatics.org/pub/biobrew/srpms/4.1/
)
Thanks in advance,
Mattias
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