CLUSTAL W vs. Mac Pro
Four CLUSTAL W Jobs
In order to help Danielle out with something I currently have four scripts running, each running six sequential CLUSTAL W jobs doing DNA sequence alignment on 500-some sequences. Each core in my Mac Pro (quad core 2.6 GHz Xeon) is chewing away at data, and each of those individual jobs should take around 40 minutes each.
This is v1.81, compiled as an Intel binary with GCC i686-apple-darwin8-gcc-4.0.1 earlier today. I was going to use the pre-compiled fat binary v1.83 version made available here, but Danielle had originally been running this all on her slow(er) XP laptop with v1.81, and I didn’t want to risk any versioning problems.
Hopefully the data will prove to be useful tomorrow. I hope.
If it does, I might have to run more. That’s okay, at least the Mac Pro is finally getting a workout.
that screen shot makes me laugh out loud for 4 specific reasons…
I’ll save the whip sound effects for next week ; )
Why? Because I named the login sessions after the name of the account which they automatically log into?
Intel has some optimized tools and libraries for OSX now:
Intel® Software Development Products for Mac OS* – Intel® Software Network
Intel® Math Kernel Library 9.1 – Overview – Intel® Software Network
Worth a look, anyway.