Publications related to this project
Distributed Protein Sequence Alignment, Michael Meehan, Heidi Young, James Hearne, Phillip Nelson, 18th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems (PDCS-2005) September 12 - 14, 2005 Las Vegas, Nevada updsfin.pdf
Team Members: Heidi Young (graduated)
Source Code:
This project concerns the development of a system to perform distributed protein database searches. The system has been partially implemented. It is written in in Unicon with one piece implemented in C. Yhe piece implemented in C should be rewritten in Unicon. . The Protein Data Bank (PDB) is divided into roughly equal size slices and distributed to the various nodes of a cluster of computers. A web form based front end provides an interface into the system. Users can submit search requests via web forms. The system will perform the search and send the results as web pages or via email. The pieces of the distributed system communicate via sockets.