Handling Big Data Scalability in Biological Domain Using Parallel and Distributed Processing: A Case of Three Biological Semantic Similarity Measures

Table 20

Total time reduction obtained using Threaded Resnik with a distributed system and input data divided by their similarity versus input data divided equally.

Number of Gene Pairs	Improvement Percentage (IP)
	2 Slaves	3 Slaves	4 Slaves
10	-11.79	-28.59	1446.61
100	263.75	342.67	76.45
1000	1436.49	2081.14	2021.31
10000	7012.94	15755.41	16546.66
100000	17116.60	19291.13	17176.28
1000000	29539.75	32964.86	44558.83
Average	9226.29	11712.50	13637.69