February 2018
Beginner
290 pages
7h 28m
English
In order to best explain this use case, consider the scientists trying to cure deadly diseases, for which they conduct research on the human genome.
A genome, simply defined, is the blueprint of making a full organism. In humans, these genes are encoded as DNA in the 23 pairs of chromosomes.
A genome of a single individual, will take several gigabytes of storage with several million DNA. With the massive compute power that we have today, it takes up to 200 hours (8.33 days) in order to sequence a single human genome (without parallelization and excluding analysis).
Consider that a doctor needs to run a sample size of 5,000 people for lung cancer research. Without parallelization, it would take ...
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