Figure 6
From: NFU-Enabled FASTA: moving bioinformatics applications onto wide area networks
Average response time per database chunk 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. In distributed, or chunked, systems the average response time of three efforts per node remains constant throughout the system, indicating that future speed-ups in time will be a function of the granularity of data stripping across the IBP network with a lower bound based on network communication time.