Optimizing UniFrac with OpenACC Yields Greater Than One Thousand Times Speed Increase

ABSTRACT UniFrac is an important tool in microbiome research that is used for phylogenetically comparing microbiome profiles to one another (beta diversity). Striped UniFrac recently added the ability to split the problem into many independent subproblems, exhibiting nearly linear scaling but suffer...

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Main Authors: Igor Sfiligoi, George Armstrong, Antonio Gonzalez, Daniel McDonald, Rob Knight
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2022-06-01
Series:mSystems
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Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/msystems.00028-22