Received from the mpiBLAST team

mpiBLAST 1.3.0 has (finally) been released. It incorporates several major
design changes that improve reliablilty, performance, and accuracy.

Key enhancements are:
- utilizes latest NCBI Toolbox (Oct 20, 2004)
- E-value scores are exact and identical to scores reported by NCBI
BLAST by using both the effective query and effective database lengths.
(It is necessary/required to patch the NCBI Toolbox before compilation)
- Database pipelining speeds up database distribution by limiting access
to shared filesystem. Number of concurrent accesses is a run-time option
(--concurrent).
- Results pipelining reduces memory requirements for large query sets.
- Database distribution can occur through cp, scp, or rcp system
calls, through MPI function calls (MPI_Send/MPI_Recv), or not at all if you
choose to use the shared filesystem as local storage. It is a runtime
option (--copy-via).

mpiBLAST version 1.3.0 was a long time in coming, but is the fastest,
most exact, and most stable version of mpiBLAST yet.

Download it here: http://mpiblast.lanl.gov