Table 1.

Time Comparison of fastprotvsfastprot_mpi

Tools	Nodes	Time (minutes)
fastprot	1	1149
fastprot_mpi	8	148
fastprot_mpi	16	76
fastprot_mpi	32	40
fastprot_mpi	64	22

A protein family of 5186 family members was considered for this analysis, and time (rounded to the whole minutes) was recorded for each experiment using the Unix command "time". All experiments were performed on node level at a cluster machine. There were 8 cores in single node of the cluster machine on which the experiments were performed.