Cloud Computing for Protein-Ligand Binding Site Comparison

Table 1

Execution time and proportional reduction (relative to sequential SMAP) of Cloud-PLBS using different numbers of mappers.

Method	20 pairs		30 pairs		40 pairs
	Execution time (sec)	Reduction; rate	Execution time (sec)	Reduction; rate	Execution time (sec)	Reduction; rate
Sequential SMAP	375		733		1141
Cloud-PLBS for; 2 mappers	280	24.44%	501	31.66%	754	33.92%
Cloud-PLBS for 4; mappers	188	48.87%	319	56.49%	491	56.97%
Cloud-PLBS for; 6 mappers	149	60.27%	244	66.72%	340	70.21%
Cloud-PLBS for 8 mappers	112	70.13%	183	75.03%	255	77.65%