{"id":35,"date":"2008-04-30T23:10:42","date_gmt":"2008-04-30T23:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/psyphi.net\/blog\/?p=35"},"modified":"2011-10-19T10:21:37","modified_gmt":"2011-10-19T10:21:37","slug":"massively-parallel-sequence-archive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psyphi.net\/blog\/2008\/04\/massively-parallel-sequence-archive\/","title":{"rendered":"Massively Parallel Sequence Archive"},"content":{"rendered":"

For some time now at Sanger<\/a> we’ve been looking at the problems and solutions involved with building services supporting what are likely to become some of the biggest databases on the planet. The biggest problem is there aren&#39;t too many people doing this kind of thing and who are willing to talk about it.<\/p>\n

The data we’re storing falls into two categories. Short Read Format (SRF) files containing sequence, quality and trace (~10Gb per lane) data and FastQ containing sequence and quality (~1Gb per lane).<\/p>\n

Our requirements for these data are fundamentally for two different systems. One is a long-term archival system for SRF, the responsibility for which will eventually be shifted to the EBI<\/a> . The second is, for me at least, the more interesting system –<\/p>\n

The short-term storage of reads and qualities (and possibly also for selected alignments) isn’t the biggest problem – that honour is left to the fast, parallel retrieval of the same. The underlying data store needs to grow at a respectable 12TB per year and serve maybe a hundred simultaneous users requesting up to 1000 sequences per second.<\/p>\n

Transfer times for reads are small but as a result are disproportionately affected by artefacts like TCP setup times, HTTP header payloads and certainly index seek times.<\/p>\n

We’re looking at a few horizontally-scaling solutions for performing these kinds of jobs – the most obvious are tools like MapReduce<\/a> and equivalents like Hadoop<\/a> running with Nutch<\/a> . My personal favourite and the one I’m holding out for is MogileFS<\/a> from the same people who brought you Memcached<\/a> . Time to get benchmarking!<\/p>\n

Updated: Loved this<\/a> via Brad<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For some time now at Sanger we’ve been looking at the problems and solutions involved with building services supporting what are likely to become some of the biggest databases on the planet. The biggest problem is there aren&#39;t too many people doing this kind of thing and who are willing to talk about it. The … Continue reading “Massively Parallel Sequence Archive”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[694,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bigdata","category-scaling"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t