Question

A computational biologist develops a computationally intensive program for DNA sequence alignment. When they use distributed computing techniques to run the program on four computers in parallel, they find a speedup of 4. In this case, what does a speedup of 4 indicate

Answer 1

Answer: The program completed in a quarter of the time with four computers versus one computer

Explanation:

Distributed computing simply means using distributed systems in solving computational problems and this is done as the problem is divided into many tasks, whereby the tasks are accomplished by one or more computers.

Following the information given in the question, a speedup of 4 indicate that the program completed in a quarter of the time with four computers versus one computer.