An Improved Distance Matrix Computation Algorithm for Multicore Clusters

Table 2

Efficiency comparisons using 32 nodes.

Number of sequences (Length of sequence)	ClustalW-MPI	SSE2	DistVect
6,000 (858)	0.1899	0.0401	0.0642
3,000 (858)	0.2025	0.0414	0.0625
2,000 (1,750)	0.2087	0.0436	0.0677
4,000 (1,750)	0.2061	0.0449	0.0696
200 (30,500)	0.2578	0.0881	0.0910
50 (161,000)	0.2730	0.0823	0.0919
20 (163,650)	0.2901	0.0863	0.0919