Originally posted by What_Da_Seq
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How are the hdds? SAS? SATA? rpms?
That machine can probably compute the alignments of a full illumina FC or
full SOLiD slide (Fragments -- illumina:75bp/SoLiD:50bp -- human data -- bfast recommended indexes/parameters) in 3 or 4 days?
Now if you add faster Cpus, faster FSB and _specially_ faster hdds you can reduce that to one day. Is it worth it 3k more to get your computation
done in 1 day instead of 3 or 4? It depends.
P.S: of course computing this in your cluster is the way to go. But we are talking here about single machine performance.
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