This manual is intended for people who want to maintain the
implemented blast server, and for anybody who wants to install a blast
server on a distributed environment. The reader should know what the
blast programs are and how they are called, should have an idea about
the PVM library and the RPC mechanisms, and should have given a look
to E. Masson's Diploma Thesis ``Portage d'une application de biologie
moléculaire d'un environnement multiprocesseurs vers un réseau de
stations'' [Masson94], and to the report of C. Javet and X.
Défago ``Distribution de la charge pour BLAST'' [Jav Def 94]. The
reader might also want to look at the page dedicated to this project
on the WWW, at http://diwww.epfl.ch/~blastdat
.