1. Having a Blast! on DiaGrid Carol Song Rosen Center for Advanced Computing carolxsong@purdue.edu December 9, 2011

2. What is DiaGrid A large, high-throughput, distributed computing system Operated by Rosen Center (RCAC) Using Condor to manage jobs and resources Good for running serial computations on a large number of processors Utilizing idle cycles Including all Purdue clusters, lab computers, department computers, desktop, totaling 50,000+ cores Purdue leading a partnership of 10 campuses and institutions

5. How to Compute on DiaGrid Direct access to Condor front end and use Linux command line – Software install, configuration, copy input data… – Documentation Documentation

6. Going forward … … DiaGrid + HUBzero EASY! – Free account sign-up – Instant access – Hosted applications – How-to videos, examples, questions&answers to help you get started – Social networking for research (group, wiki, discussion board, wish list, ticket system) BLAST!!

7. Plan for BLAST Prototype (Dec.) User interface for running Blast in a browser Input: type in or upload a file (FASTA) Support blast flavors (blastn, blastx, blastp) Choice of publicly available Blast databases (NCBI), updated regularly Minimum input size supported: 10s of MBs User can see search status and % completed User can download output files Release 1.0 (Feb- Mar) Ability for user to upload own databases Can select private databases for search Support larger input: 100s MBs Support more blast flavors Support output formats (?) Release 2.0 Support more databases (swissprot? Ensembl? ) in additional to NCBI A tool for managing and sharing research sequence databases. For example, user can specify whether to make a database: Public Shared with a group private

9. We need your help Early adopters to help us improve the tools (sign-up sheet or email Carol) Use it and tell us your stories Partnership in developing tools and the communities around the applications