Figure 5
From: NFU-Enabled FASTA: moving bioinformatics applications onto wide area networks
Response time vs. NFU-enables IBP FASTA services. FASTA-formatted genome sequence databases were either kept locally as an unformatted dataset, distributed within a local IBP node in 20 chunks, or distributed within a non-local IBP network to 1, 5, 10 or 20 nodes. The total response time versus these NFU-enabled IBP FASTA services was tested as a function of query size against the total data sets. The average of three results indicate that query sizes of 500 and 1000 bp against remote one node FASTA systems return the slowest response time. This slowdown is expected over local FASTA systems as a result of network communication times. The local FASTA system with 20 nodes has slightly better response time as compared with the system of local server with unfragmented datasets.