[Beowulf] scratch File system for small cluster

[Joe Landman]

Glen Beane wrote:
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>     Hi Glen:
> 
>        BLAST uses mmap'ed IO.  This has some interesting ... interactions
>     ... with parallel file systems.
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>     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


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