PRE-BUILT WU-BLAST EXECUTABLES

The blastapp.PLATFORM.tar.Z archives contain pre-built WU-BLAST executables for
a variety of computing platforms.  Find your platform in the list of platform
definitions below and transfer the corresponding archive to your host (using
BINARY file transfer mode).  To unpack the executables in your current working
directory, execute the command:

   zcat blastapp.PLATFORM.tar | tar xvf -


PLATFORM        Definitions
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irix6-r8k*      SGI IRIX 6.0.1, MIPS R8000 processor
irix5.3*        SGI IRIX 5.3, MIPS R3000 processor
osf1-3.2*       Digital OSF/1 3.2, Alpha processor
sol2.5-x86*     Sun Solaris 2.5, Intel x86 (386, 486, Pentium...) processor
sol2.5-sparc*   Sun Solaris 2.5, SPARC processor
sol2.5-ultra*   Sun Solaris 2.5, UltraSPARC processor
linux           Linux (Red Hat 1.2.13), Intel x86 processor


*The BLASTP, BLASTN, BLASTX, TBLASTN, and TBLASTX executables for these
platforms were built to use threads/multiprocessing (the so-called "MP"
versions of the BLAST programs).  The MP versions will employ as many CPUs as
are in the box you run them on, yet the efficiency of processor utilization is
high (often >90%) for modest to large queries.  It is fine to run the MP
versions on computer systems containing only one processor.