I'm in process of purchasing a new system to run GCG and am looking at
all 3 possible vendors: SGI, Sun, and an Alpha system.
Systems under consideration are:
SGI Origin 2000, 4 250Mhz processors, 1GB RAM, and 18GB drives
E3500, 4 400Mhz processors, 1GB RAM, and 18GB drives
Alpha 4100, 2 600Mhz processors, 1GB RAM, 18GB drives.
No RAID is under consideration. I want speed and RAM rather than the
RAID uptime.
It seems that the most commonly used really long-running job here is
fasta. I've tested it on a
couple of systems to which I have access. Running
Hypersparc, 2 90Mhz processors and 160MB RAM and GCG
10.0: cpu=1:18:54
Alpha4100, 2 466Mhz processors, .5GB RAM and GCG 9.1: cpu=0:27:35
If anyone can provide some further tests of fasta, I'd appreciate it.
I've included the sequence used below. It was run agains the most
recently released GenEmble (the 99-1 database release from GCG) with all
default
options except MAXPROCESSORS, which was set to 2 rather than the default
64.
I'd particularly like to see results of tests on the systems I'm
considering (see above). CC's of any results directly to me as well as
the newsgroup would be appreciated as I have to use a pretty convoluted
method to get to the newsgroups. My University no longer carries them
and my ISP has out-sourced news and I cannot connect directly from
work..
!!NA_SEQUENCE 1.0
core3 Length: 526 April 8, 1999 19:39 Type: N Check: 8545 ..
1 TAgCTGGGCC CAGGCCTTGT ACGGTGCAGT CAGTACTGTC ACTATCACAC
51 TTGCCACAGT GACATTCAGT GGCTACTGGA TATGTATACA GGGAATCTGC
101 CTGGTGAGCA CAGCCGGGCA CTTTCACTGT CTCGTACACC AGCTCTTTGA
151 AGGTACATGT TTTCTGGTTG TTGGGCCTGG CTGGGTCCTT GTACACTAGA
201 TCCTGAGGAG TTTAGAAAGG AGAGGATTAG GTTAAAATAT GCTGGAAGTT
251 TCTATGTAGC ATAGTGAAAA TGAGATGGAA ACTTAATATT GCTTGTTCTA
301 ACATTTACCC ATTAAAGCTC ACTTAAGGAA TTCCTAACCA AGGCAAATAT
351 GATCTTATAA ATATCCTATT TCCTGGTTCT GGAAATCATA TAgAAAAGAT
401 AAGTCATTCC TTTTCCTACT CCTTATGTCA ATATCAAATC TTAAATATTT
451 CTCAAACTGT AGAgAAATTT TAAATTTCnA TATAGAAAAA GATgAAAAGT
501 GAAATATAAC AAATTTTAAG TTGATT
