# Running Mothur on supercomputers

**URL:** <https://forum.mothur.org/t/running-mothur-on-supercomputers/2066>\
**Category:** Journal club\
**Created:** [October 8, 2014, 8:58pm UTC](https://forum.mothur.org/t/running-mothur-on-supercomputers/2066 "2014-10-08T20:58:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![ifuleyoula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ed8c4c/32.png) [@ifuleyoula](https://forum.mothur.org/u/ifuleyoula)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2014, 8:58pm UTC](https://forum.mothur.org/t/running-mothur-on-supercomputers/2066/1 "2014-10-08T20:58:38Z")

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In case anyone here would be interested, we did some instrumentation on Mothur with OpenMP and saw orders of magnitude speed-up on cluter command and others. Here is the link to the proceeding paper: [http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2616505](http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2616505)

BTW, XSEDE (successor of TeraGrid) resources are open to university researchers, and currently the approval rate for a start-up proposal (10,000 ~ 100,000 cpu hours) is close to 100%. You’re welcome to take advantage of national computational resources. Here is more details on the allocation process: [https://portal.xsede.org/allocations-overview](https://portal.xsede.org/allocations-overview)