mpiBLAST: Open-Source Parallel BLAST

mpiBLAST Releases

Downloads in this area include all bug fixes available. Users who should probably use this version are:

• New users
• Users with production environments
• Users who just want mpiBLAST to work

mpiBLAST-1.6.0

(Note: If you are looking for faster and more robust parallel BLAST with professional support, check out AbokiaBLAST.)

Short list of features:

• Adopted a hierarchical scheduling architecture that signifcantly improves program scalability on massively parallel computers.
• Updated NCBI BLAST support to a more recent version (2.2.20, released April 2009)
• Resolved the performance issues when searching large query files.
• Integrated support of IBM Blue Gene/L and Blue Gene/P systems.

Patches:

• mpiBLAST-1.6.0-patch-110806
  • Fixed the compiling issue with GCC 4.2 and newer versions.
• mpiBLAST-1.6.0-patch-100813
  • Fixed the compiling issue of NCBI toolkit on Mac OS X.
  • Fixed linking issues with OpenMPI (e.g., MPI::Datatype::free() undefined.)

See the README file inside the package for a list of run-time and configure options to get the best performance out of mpiBLAST.