General Information
| Description | Ad hoc distributed computation |
| Homepage | http://github.com/sysbio-bioinf/sputnik |
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Sputnik: ad hoc distributed computation
Motivation
: In bioinformatic applications, computationally demanding algorithms are often parallelized to speed up computation. Nevertheless, setting up computational environments for distributed computation is often tedious. Aim of this project were the lightweight ad hoc set up and fault-tolerant computation requiring only a Java runtime, no administrator rights, while utilizing all CPU cores most effectively.
Results:
The Sputnik framework provides ad hoc distributed computation on the Java Virtual Machine which uses all supplied CPU cores fully. It provides a graphical user interface for deployment setup and a web user interface displaying the current status of current computation jobs. Neither a permanent setup nor administrator privileges are required. We demonstrate the utility of our approach on feature selection of microarray data.
Availability and implementation
: The Sputnik framework is available on Github http://github.com/sysbio-bioinf/sputnik under the Eclipse Public License.
Contact
: hkestler@fli-leibniz.de or hans.kestler@uni-ulm.de
Supplementary information:
Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
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