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. 2011 Nov 7;12:432. doi: 10.1186/1471-2105-12-432

Table 2.

Computation times for enumerating all tryptic compositions up to the length of 30, for different sets of jobs and number of work processes, with and without the maximum mass limit

Task Number
of Workers
Job Table Computation Time
Number
of Jobs
start L max,2 L max,3 L max,4 massMax = 3 kDa no massMax

L = 30 1 1 1 - - - 6 h 03 min 35 h 11 min

5 30 2 - - - 2 h 12 min 14 h 52 min

30 30 2 - - - 1 h 39 min 13 h 32 min

30 255 ≤ 3 20 - - 28 min 5 h 02 min

71 255 ≤ 3 20 - - 27 min 4 h 57 min

71 679 ≤ 5 20 24 28 11 min 1 h 20 min

Computations were done using 71 work processes executed on a cluster with 12 Intel Xeon X5650 CPUs running Windows HPC Server 2008.