[BioC] Installation on a cluster

Atro Tossavainen atossava at cc.helsinki.fi
Fri Apr 18 08:20:19 CEST 2008


Sean Davis wrote:

> I agree that I/O can be an issue.  There are file systems that are
> specifically designed with some of these issues in mind (see AFS, as
> an example).

In most use cases of AFS, the cluster nodes would not see AFS any more
than any other part of the public Internet.  Even if they did, the
initial load of something onto a particular client machine is not going
to be affected by AFS caching facilities anyway.  As an AFS admin, I
don't think AFS has anything to offer to the solution of this particular
problem.

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