[Swift-devel] Heads-up on new Swift user - running scip for genomics

[Michael Wilde]

We are starting to work with Chris Henry, a postdoc (I think) of Rick 
Stevens who is running "scip" integer programming jobs for genomics studies.

His jobs will run (eg on Ranger) for 1-4 hours, and he needs about 1000 
jobs per study.  I suspect the times will cluster under 2 hours, and he 
sets 4 hours as the max.

The jobs each have 1 input and 1 output file, O(1MB) each.

We'll be trying this on Ranger and then other TG systems as we get the 
code more widely compiled. Its running now on Ranger. SiCortex and BGP 
will also be of interest, as will Kraken.

Ive asked Zhao to adopt this as a user test case; more on that approach 
later. (Basically, for steady tests that consume a lot of resources, Im 
asking Zhao to explore ways to run tests from lists of scientifically 
useful results. Thats in addition to basic sanity tests of simpe cases 
that are easier to troubleshoot).

- Mike