International Journal of Computer Applications |
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA |
Volume 100 - Number 18 |
Year of Publication: 2014 |
Authors: Narendra Chaudhari, Anjali Mahajan |
10.5120/17629-8411 |
Narendra Chaudhari, Anjali Mahajan . SP-fold - Speculative Parallelization for Parallel Algorithm of RNA Secondary Structure Prediction on Multicore. International Journal of Computer Applications. 100, 18 ( August 2014), 38-42. DOI=10.5120/17629-8411
Bioinformatics is faced with accelerating increase of data set sizes originating from powerful high-throughput measuring devices. Extensive computational power is the basic requirement for solving problems in bioinformatics. One of the key solutions to time-efficient data processing is the proper implementation of computational intensive tasks using parallel technology. A large number of cores is combined into a single chip to improve the overall performance of the multi-core processors. This depicts the current trends in processor architecture. This paper proposes a new software-only speculative parallelization scheme for implementing RNA Secondary Structure Prediction algorithm in parallel. The scheme is developed after a systematic evaluation of the design options available. It is also shown to be efficient, robust and to outperform previously proposed schemes used for parallel implementation of RNA Secondary Structure Prediction.