<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div>Hi All,</div><div><br></div><div>I notice from the file ${ENSEMBL_ROOT}/ctrl_scripts/start_server that an LSF installation is expected, i.e.:</div><div><br></div><div># LOAD LSF ENVIRONMENT - REQUIRED FOR BLAST<br>my $cmd = ". /usr/local/lsf/conf/profile.lsf;" if -e '/usr/local/lsf/conf/profile.lsf';<br></div><div><br></div><div>I would like to use a different batch system if possible, namely Condor, and I notice that there's a company that offers such a service commercially, so it should be possible. However, I can't find any online resource describing how to perform the switch. Does anyone on this list know how to, and would they care to share the information?</div><div><br></div><div>Failing that, is Platform Lava (LSF's watered-down free version) a suitable
alternative?</div><div><br></div><div>TIA,</div><div>Bob</div></div></body></html>