RNA-seq I/O requirements

[paolo.kunder]

Dear All,
I am a Post-Doc working in Italy and we would like to start up a HPC server to analyse RNA-seq data. We where concerning about the I/O requirements of alignment software, probably the critical step.
We started to ask offers and we finally ended up with a server with
these characteristics.
We would like to be able to analyse in parallel at least 4 human
sample against hg19, is the RAM enough or we should improve it?
any other suggestions to set up a state of art machine?

Server IBM x3755 M3 7164A2G:
• 4x AMD Opteron 16C Processor Model 6282SE 140W 2.6GHz
• 64 GB di RAM
• Dual Power
• 8 IBM 3TB 7.2K 6Gbps NL SAS 3.5" HS HDD
• ServeRAID M5015 SAS/SATA Controller
• ServeRAID-M5000 Series Battery Assembly
• NetBAY 1.5m USB Conversion Option pack
• IBM UltraSlim Enhanced SATA DVD-ROM Combo


Thanks for your support,

PK

[DZhang]

Hi PK,

Your server should be sufficient for the project proposed. How much data do you plan to have for each sample?

Regards,
Douglas

https://www.contigexpress.com