An agent-based solution for dynamic multi-node wavefront balancing in biological sequence comparison

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Highlights:

• An agent-based solution to execute multi-node wavefront bioinformatics applications.

• Strategy to dynamically adjust the load in heterogeneous non-dedicated environments.

• Agent negotiation protocol to dynamically rebalance the wavefront.

• Formal definitions of globally and locally stable wavefront.

摘要

•An agent-based solution to execute multi-node wavefront bioinformatics applications.•Strategy to dynamically adjust the load in heterogeneous non-dedicated environments.•Agent negotiation protocol to dynamically rebalance the wavefront.•Formal definitions of globally and locally stable wavefront.

论文关键词:Agent-based approach,Bioinformatics algorithms,Heterogeneous multi-node wavefront method,Parallel biological sequence comparison,Smith–Waterman algorithm

论文评审过程:Available online 20 February 2014.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2014.01.030