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The great thing about pipeline scripts like this is that you can perform alignments on many datasets in parallel at TACC, and they are written to take advantage of having multiple cores on TACC nodes where possible.
On the Lonestar5, with its 24 physical cores and 48 virtual cores per node, they are designed to run best with no more than 4 tasks per node.
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These alignment scripts should always be run with a wayness of 4 (-w 4) in the Lonestar5 batch system, meaning at most 4 commands per node. |
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