Sorry guys - been in a meeting. Now you realise the joys of Taverna and workflows! Welcome to my world! Right my machine was 256mb which is below the minimum required by Taverna (correct Tom??) and so used to freeze - I thought this was just me having a shonky machine but have copied Tom in on this as this could potentially be quite a big problem with users.... all three of us having to find (in my case buy) new machines to undertake this work.

Neil - I think your problem may be something different - not sure what, firewall? Try running Taverna from the same place as soaplab was Phils suggestion yesterday. I've ran out of ideas... : ( Stefan - moving to the bigger machine should solve your woes (fingers crossed) - I'm currently running my stuff remotely on a bigger machine and all is working fine.

Yes my workflows take a while to run - because you are currently running them over 125,000bp of sequence. Figured there was no point giving you small bits of sequence as it need to be able to cope with the big stuff but I can easily give you a smaller piece of sequence for any demos so that it'll run quicker - the time is decided by the input and all the predictions, less input = less predictions = less time. I doubt people will be too bothered about the results - they're interested in the portal ; ) Also, I HAVE to make to working portal for this - not just for the people in my lab but because other tools currently housed as HGMP have lost funding and are not going to be maintained after 2005 so it is quite likly that if we can get this working properly it is such a generic workflow that it will be very useful to all kinds of other people. And, I need it for a PhD^? chapter : )

Does that answer all the (current) questions??? Maybe it'll be a good idea to meet up soonish?? Let me know if you need any more info.... Cheers Hannah

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>>> >I had a similar problem yesterday with the workflow freezing (no
>>> >out of memory error though!) while using the alpha 8 release - when
>>> >I moved to the alpha 9 release I got no freezing - but a consistant
>>> >error - DOH!!!

>> Yep, not getting any error message, it just freezes. I'm going to
>> try checking out the latest version of Taverna and see what happens,
>> also going to try moving to a 512mb machine from 256mb.
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>>> >As well as how much memory does it take whats the average runtime
>>> >for this workflow? If its too long it my not be the best one to use
>>> >for a portal demonstration which really needs a workflow which will
>>> >typically finish in 30-40 seconds or people will just get bored
>>> >watching a blank screen!
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>> Good point., it seems to take ~10 minutes with me.
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>> I'm going to carry on with Hannah's workflow A for the minute in a
>> portal, as hopefully it might be used by people in her lab.
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>> Possibilitite for demo
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>> 1. portlets displaying previous results from running this workflow?
>> (I'll be doing these anyway) 2. simpler workflow, but which one?
>> I've got some very simple ones (eg look up sequence from srs,
>> convert format to user-requested format) but they're probably too
>> simple to be good for demos
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>> Stef
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