On Integration of GUI and Portal of Cluster and Grid Computing Platforms for Parallel Bioinformatics

In this paper, we implement an experimental distributed computing application for parallel bioinformatics. The system consists of the basic cluster and grid computing environment and user portal to provide a useful graphical interface for biologists who are not specialized in Information Technology (IT) to be able to easily take advantages of using high-performance computing resources. Finally, we perform several experimentations to demonstrate that cluster and grid computing platform indeed reduces the execution time of the biology problem.

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