Research Article

SCBI_MapReduce, a New Ruby Task-Farm Skeleton for Automated Parallelisation and Distribution in Chunks of Sequences: The Implementation of a Boosted Blast+

Table 2

Percent of time spent by the manager on every sequence-based job similary as detailed in Table 1.

CoresReal-world sequencesArtificial sequences
1X 100X 250X 2000X 1X 100X 250Xā€‰2000Xā€‰

2 0.92 0.48 0.49 0.41 0.84 0.44 0.43 0.36
4 0.71 0.41 0.45 0.35 0.68 0.37 0.39 0.32
8 0.58 0.40 0.41 0.34 0.55 0.35 0.34 0.29
16 0.52 0.39 0.39 0.34 0.58 0.41 0.37 0.28
32 0.52 0.50 0.51 0.37 0.47 0.45 0.44 0.33
64 0.47 0.56 0.55 0.40 0.37 0.45 0.48 0.34
128 0.61 0.57 0.62 0.37 0.54 0.48 0.49 0.40