Oh, you could make this run using MPI etc... no problem. But then all you are really doing is going from high density to low density ram. And that is just not a

Oh, you could make this run using MPI etc... no problem. But then all you are really doing is going from high density to low density ram. And that is just not as large a saving as you would think it is. Because you are expanding rapidly the number of cpu's and racks you need to compensate for the less dense RAM. A good sequencing lab does not need more RAM than that per assembly. If you have a reference even less. Plus the science is hard enough that throwing mulitnode programming in the middle is tricky. Remember most of this code is written by a PhD student on his first real programming job. Its hard enough to go from getting it to run on something else than the PhD students laptop, never mind robustly parallelize this across nodes.