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Table 4 Normalized function runtimes of six node types relative to Type V nodes.

From: Profiling the BLAST bioinformatics application for load balancing on high-performance computing clusters

Function

Node type

I

II

III

IV

V

VI

a

0.7301

1.4077

1.5865

1.0775

1

1.0018

b

0.7941

1.3814

1.4713

1.0833

1

1.0912

c

0.8018

1.4704

1.5186

1.0689

1

1.1191

d

0.6942

1.4758

1.6585

1.0806

1

0.9484

e

0.7163

1.4249

1.5763

1.0743

1

0.9910

  1. Based on this table, we decide to use the Constant Performance Model. The \(s_i\) of each node type can be determined