[Bioperl-pipeline] General questions (not genewise matters ;-)

[Wiepert, Mathieu]

Sorry about that, forgot to change the subject line...

> Hi,
> 
> I had a few questions about how I might want to set some 
> things up.  Here is my set-up:
> 
> I have a local Linux box, set up with mySQL, 
> bioperl-pipeline, and what I think are al the required other 
> parts (bioperl-run, etc).  I also have a blast server 
> available to me, but it is not on the same machine.  So I 
> need to somehow remotely invoke all the nice commands I want 
> (We have blast, EMBOSS, genscan, etc, on a few other 
> production servers).
> 
> Is this something that is simple to do?  I only started 
> thinking about it when I was reading the example in the 
> bioperl-pipeline-run page, and it said I needed Blast and 
> RepeatMask binaries installed.  I can't yet set up a db on 
> the production machine, and not sure if I will ever be able 
> to, at least on the same machine.
> 
> I haven't really thought much about it, I can rsh to the 
> machines, I can telnet to them and have accounts on them all. 
>  On our cluster, we don't have a load balancer, so I wrote a 
> script that distributes my blasts to all the nodes on it, so 
> I imagine I would have to run that remotely, and then somehow 
> suck my output back.
> 
> So, is this a silly idea?  I assume I am not the only one in 
> this situation, what have others done?  
> 
> -Mat
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