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yes, precisely my point. If I wanted to run BLAST by partitioning it to run embarassingly parallel, they wanted to me use mpiBLAST- but mpiBLAST isn't actually any better for any real-world workfload.

This is because 50% of the cost of the machine was the interconnect, and if they let those codes run, it means they wasted budget and will get less next time.

Until I hear that the funders/builders are spending the same amount of budget on machines that let biologists run embarrassingly parallel codes as they spend on TOP500 machines, it's not going to change.



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