Archive for November 3rd, 2008

03 Nov 2008 computationally expensive
 |  Category: my life  | 3 Comments

I’m kinda disappointed at the outcome of leaving the programs to execute over the weekends. 2 days and 2 nights of computing just gone down the drain. Perhaps a wrong tool was used. Now that’s where I am baffled.

What could possibly be the case, that the program does not take up memory nor computational power, yet it gets slower and slower trying to produce the output. If it’s time it needs, then I have truly run out of time to let it finish its execution.

Erm for your information, am referring to Bioinformatics Project… Generating the phylogenetic trees. I know they are computationally expensive. On the other hand, it gave me an insight, just how intensive the execution of the program can be. My poor laptop can’t even take it (sign of it getting too old).

Although the effort’s wasted, its ok. Learnt a bit more about the project. Oddly, I am supposed to be analyzing data now.

Be back soon.

Nicole