Communication Lower-Bounds for Distributed-Memory Computations for Mass Spectrometry based Omics Data
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Mass spectrometry based omics data analysis require significant time and resources. To date, few parallel algorithms have been proposed for deducing peptides from mass spectrometry based data. However, these parallel algorithms were designed, and developed when the amount of data that needed to be processed was smaller in scale. In this paper, we prove that the communication bound that is reached by the existing parallel algorithms is Ω(mn+2rq/p), where m and n are the dimensions of the theoretical database matrix, q and r are dimensions of spectra, and p is the number of processors. We further prove that communication-optimal strategy with fast-memory √(M) = mn + 2qr/p can achieve Ω(2mnq/p) but is not achieved by any existing parallel proteomics algorithms till date. To further validate our claim, we performed a meta-analysis of published parallel algorithms, and their performance results. We show that sub-optimal speedups with increasing number of processors is a direct consequence of not achieving the communication lower-bounds proved in this paper. Consequently, we assert that next-generation of provable, and demonstrated superior parallel algorithms are urgently needed for MS based large systems-biology studies especially for meta-proteomics, protegenomics, microbiome, and proteomics for non-model organisms.
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