Dear Users of RAxML, Please accept my apologies if you consider this message as spam, but I thought that it might be of interest to some of you:
This is to announce the availability of a highly optimized and parallelized version of Pierre Legendre's Parafit program, which implements a statistical test for host-parasite co-evolution (Pierre Legendre, Yves Desdevises, Eric Bazin: "A Statistical Test for Host-Parasite Coevolution", Systematic Biology 51(2):217-234, 2002.). The sequential version runs up to 67 times faster than the original Parafit program while the speedup increases with dataset size. The parallel version scales well up to 128 CPUs on datasets of moderate size. With the parallel version of AxParafit we were able to conduct the largest Parafit-based analysis to date. The inference took only 8 minutes as opposed to an estimated runtime of about 4 weeks with Parafit (estimated because the machine on which Parafit was running crashed). The software, including a manual, is available as open source code or pre-compiled binaries at http://icwww.epfl.ch/~stamatak/AxParafit.html . Best regards, Alexis -- Dr. Alexandros Stamatakis Postdoctoral Researcher High Performance Computing Bioinformatics Swiss Federal Institute of Technology School of Computer & Communication Sciences Laboratory for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (LCBB) STATION 14 CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland Tel: +41 21 69 31392 (Office) +41 22 54 80003 (SkypeIn) +41 796115849 (Mobile) Skype: stamatak Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: icwww.epfl.ch/~stamatak -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
