We have been NFS mounting our Genbank and Protein databases and have
not seen any effect. We support several different analysis packages -
GCG and Eugene - and I do quite a few searches on my own (sometimes
hundreds per day). We have never seen an effect on the network -
certainly nothing approaching saturation.
I don't think it is a problem. We have a lot more demand from people
moving 25 - 100 Meg scanned image files over the network than from
shared sequence databases.
Bill Pearson
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wrp at virginia.EDU
Dept. of Biochemistry #440
U. of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA 22908
