After a semester of working with the computer, I am extremely happy with it. Really the astonishing thing about the machine is that there is no difference between it, and the desktop PC I’m using to write this post on. The same code that I write, or execute here will work on the machine. I get amazing performance in Bowtie, BWA and other threaded alignment tools.
SGI Altix UV 100
Uncrating and bringing into the building.
Stay tuned for a series of updates describing my experience with using an SGI Altix UV 100 with 512GB RAM, 48 Cores to process and analyze sequencing data generated on 454, SoliD and Illumina platforms. Check out this picture of our lab manager and myself taking the computer for a joy ride around campus… Or rather removing it from its packaging to fit it through the buildings doors. In subsequent posts I will describe the whole process of choosing, obtaining and using this machine to support data analysis and bioinformatics algorithm development.
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