Optimization of a parallel permutation testing function for the SPRINT R package

Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience

Volumn 23, Issue 17, 2011, Pages 2258-2268

  Petrou, Savvas ^a   Sloan, Terence M ^a   Mewissen, Muriel ^b   Forster, Thorsten ^b   Piotrowski, Michal ^a   Dobrzelecki, Bartosz ^a   Ghazal, Peter ^b   Trew, Arthur ^a   Hill, Jon ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

HPC; Microarray; MPI; Permutation; R; SPRINT

Indexed keywords

DATA HANDLING; MICROARRAYS; SUPERCOMPUTERS;

COMPUTING INFRASTRUCTURES; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING SYSTEMS; MICROARRAY DATA; PERMUTATION; PERMUTATION TESTING; SPRINT;

BENCHMARKING;

EID: 80054943286     PISSN: 15320626     EISSN: 15320634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cpe.1787     Document Type: Article

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