title: DSEARCH: sensitive database searching using distributed computing.
abstract: We present a distributed and fully cross-platform database search program that allows the user to utilize the idle clock cycles of machines to perform large searches using the most sensitive algorithms. For those in an academic or corporate environment with hundreds of idle desktop machines, DSEARCH can deliver a 'free' database search supercomputer.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  The software is publicly available under the GNU general public licence from http://www.cs.may.ie/distributed
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  tom.naughton@may.ie
  
  
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  Full documentation and a user manual is available from http://www.cs.may.ie/distributed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Computer Science, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland.
authors.forename: T M
authors.initials: TM
authors.lastname: Keane
authors.forename: T J
authors.initials: TJ
authors.lastname: Naughton
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D003205:Computing Methodologies; D003628:Database Management Systems; D030541:Databases, Genetic; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D012984:Software