Improve CeSymm multi-threading efficiency

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:ferris_wheel: Detect, analyze, and visualize protein symmetry

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Improve CeSymm multi-threading efficiency #71

Closed lafita closed 6 years ago

lafita commented 8 years ago

The performance evaluation showed poor scaling when running independent CeSymm runs in different threads. The scaling for 8 threads is only of 2.5 and using more threads makes the calculation slower due to thread overhead.

lafita commented 8 years ago

The ultimate solution for running CE-Symm in large collections in parallel should be using MMTF format and Spark.