Title
ABCGrid: Application for Bioinformatics Computing Grid.
Abstract
We have developed a package named Application for Bioinformatics Computing Grid (ABCGrid). ABCGrid was designed for biology laboratories to use heterogeneous computing resources and access bioinformatics applications from one master node. ABCGrid is very easy to install and maintain at the premise of robustness and high performance. We implement a mechanism to install and update all applications and databases in worker nodes automatically to reduce the workload of manual maintenance. We use a backup task method and self-adaptive job dispatch approach to improve performance. Currently, ABCGrid integrates NCBI_BLAST, Hmmpfam and CE, running on a number of computing platforms including UNIX/Linux, Windows and Mac OS X.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1093/bioinformatics/btm086
BIOINFORMATICS
Keywords
Field
DocType
source code,heterogeneous computing
Grid computing,Computer science,Source code,Symmetric multiprocessor system,Unix,Bioinformatics,Mac OS,Grid,Backup,Operating system,Executable
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
23
9
1367-4803
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
5
0.56
7
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ying Sun14113.51
Shuqi Zhao2845.36
Huashan Yu37811.26
Ge Gao4165.77
Jingchu Luo519916.29