Nhan Ly-Trong

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1ranked-venue papers
1as first author
1since 2021 · last 2023
0000-0001-5668-5027ORCID · reported

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Applied, interdisciplinary, general and emerging computing · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021

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Interdisciplinary, comprehensive, and emerging computing
1 paper
Bioinformatics and computational biology · 100%
Computer architecture, parallel and distributed computing, and storage systems
1 paper
Performance modeling and evaluation · 100%

Topics — the 4 heaviest of 4, each with the papers that count most for it

TopicWeightPapersLastEvidence papers
Bioinformatics and computational biology
phylogenetics
0.712023
AliSim-HPC: parallel sequence simulator for phylogenetics · Bioinform. 2023
Bioinformatics and computational biology › phylogenetics › computational phylogenetics
phylogenetic simulation
0.712023
AliSim-HPC: parallel sequence simulator for phylogenetics · Bioinform. 2023
Bioinformatics and computational biology
sequence simulation
0.712023
AliSim-HPC: parallel sequence simulator for phylogenetics · Bioinform. 2023
Performance modeling and evaluation › simulation › parallel and distributed simulation
parallel simulation
0.212023
AliSim-HPC: parallel sequence simulator for phylogenetics · Bioinform. 2023

Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics

OpenMP · 1.3MPI · 1.3
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2023 AliSim-HPC: parallel sequence simulator for phylogenetics
abstract
MOTIVATION: Sequence simulation plays a vital role in phylogenetics with many applications, such as evaluating phylogenetic methods, testing hypotheses, and generating training data for machine-learning applications. We recently introduced a new simulator for multiple sequence alignments called AliSim, which outperformed existing tools. However, with the increasing demands of simulating large data sets, AliSim is still slow due to its sequential implementation; for example, to simulate millions of sequence alignments, AliSim took several days or weeks. Parallelization has been used for many phylogenetic inference methods but not yet for sequence simulation. RESULTS: This paper introduces AliSim-HPC, which, for the first time, employs high-performance computing for phylogenetic simulations. AliSim-HPC parallelizes the simulation process at both multi-core and multi-CPU levels using the OpenMP and message passing interface (MPI) libraries, respectively. AliSim-HPC is highly efficient and scalable, which reduces the runtime to simulate 100 large gap-free alignments (30 000 sequences of one million sites) from over one day to 11 min using 256 CPU cores from a cluster with six computing nodes, a 153-fold speedup. While the OpenMP version can only simulate gap-free alignments, the MPI version supports insertion-deletion models like the sequential AliSim. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: AliSim-HPC is open-source and available as part of the new IQ-TREE version v2.2.3 at https://github.com/iqtree/iqtree2/releases with a user manual at http://www.iqtree.org/doc/AliSim.
Nhan Ly-Trong, Giuseppe M. J. Barca, Bui Quang Minh
Bioinform.1