NEWS:

The Iyer Lab at the University of Texas operates a LAD server on a very mid-tier Dell Workstation.  This server has been in operation for approximately one year (pre-dates LAD public release).

This server now hosts over 2000+ experiments for greater than 60 university users and collaborators.  These experiments range from low-density Vibrio cholerae custom arrays, to super high-density Homo sapiens (>50,000 spots) arrays.

Early every morning a set of "sample queries" that include genomic annotations are launched by an automated process.  The purpose of this action is to record the overall performance of an average user query over time as the server is loaded with an increasing amount of experiments.

Below is a chart that summarizes the performance for the Iyer Lab server for the past 200+ days.  As you can see the performance for both Homo sapiens and Saccharomyces cerevisiae queries has remained nearly perfectly constant across this entire time-span.  In this time the server has grown from a handful of experiments to the current count of 2000+.

The Iyer Lab is currently running LAD, version 1.2 on Mandrake Linux version 9.1.

* extreme data points that were the result of script failures, database caching, or process collisions were omitted from this table.