Database allocation strategies for parallel BLAST evaluation on clusters

Distributed and Parallel Databases

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 99-127

  De Carvalho Costa, Rogério Luís ^a   Lifschitz, Sérgio ^a  

^a PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

BLAST; Data distribution; Database design; Parallelism; Workstation clusters

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA ACQUISITION; DNA; PROTEINS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

DATABASE DESIGN;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 0036462147     PISSN: 09268782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1021569823663     Document Type: Article

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