[Bioperl-pipeline] FW: General questions

[Elia Stupka]

> Also, is Parasol different than the other two packages you recommended
> on your web pages, LSF and PBS?

LSF is good but commercial, PBS has an open version that is crap and a
commercial version PBSPro free for academics that you could try though it
is not as good as PBS. Parasol is from Jim Kent, I haven't had a chance to
try it yet, but would love to and I've heard is more efficient in
scheduling becuase it has less overhead. Of course it doesn't have the
fancyness of LSF but probably is better suited to your neesd anyway.

I am cc:ing Jim to see what he comments.

Elia

> 
> 
> > It could get very hairy, why don't you get a scheduler 
> > system? How many
> > CPUs do you have?
> 
> We only have about 20 right now, though there are plans to grow it.  Saw the note on parasol.  Perhaps I don't understand the issues, but if I am on a remote machine, how is the scheduler going to help that.  If I am on the cluster, then I can see the use, but once I get off and have to remotely fire things off, a scheduler can handle that?  Thanks for educating me on this one, sorry I am a bit fuzzy on these details.
> 
> -Mat
> 
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Elia

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