14th International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA'03)
A Study of a Multi-Ring Buffer Management for BLAST
Prague, Czech Republic
September 01-September 05
ISBN: 0-7695-1993-8
In this work we are interested with memory management for the execution of multiple BLAST processes. It is usually assumed that there is a large main memory available so that DBMS services are not considered. In general, the underlying operating system is responsible for all data manipulations, including page replacement policies. We present here a memory management policy, together with implementation issues, that may improve considerably the performance of simultaneous BLAST executions.