Title :
Large scale execution of a bioinformatic application on a volunteer grid
Author :
Bertis, Viktors ; Bolze, Raphaël ; Desprez, Frédéric ; Reed, Kevin
Author_Institution :
IBM Syst. & Technol. Group, Austin, TX
Abstract :
Large volunteer desktop platforms are now available for several applications. This paper presents the work that we did to prepare the first phase of the Help Cure Muscular Dystrophy project to run on World Community Grid. The project was launched on December 19, 2006, and took 26 weeks to complete. We present performance evaluation of the overall execution and compare a volunteer grid with a dedicated one.
Keywords :
biology computing; grid computing; scientific information systems; Help Cure Muscular Dystrophy Project; bioinformatic application; large volunteer desktop platform; volunteer grid; world community grid; Bioinformatics; Computer applications; Costs; Databases; Grid computing; Laboratories; Large-scale systems; Prediction algorithms; Protein engineering; Technological innovation; World Community Grid; desktop computing; docking application; grid performance evaluation; grids comparison;
Conference_Titel :
Parallel and Distributed Processing, 2008. IPDPS 2008. IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Miami, FL
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1693-6
Electronic_ISBN :
1530-2075
DOI :
10.1109/IPDPS.2008.4536484
