AB-BLAST Editions
All “editions” of AB-BLAST are full featured and differ only in the extent of their support for threads or parallel processing during database searches. Standard Edition and Enterprise Edition are also supported for a wider range of computing platforms (shown here) than Personal Edition.
| Personal Edition (PE) | no parallelism |
| Standard Edition (SE) | support for up to 2 (real or virtual) processors and 16 threads* |
| Enterprise Edition (EE) | support for up to 64 processors and 128 threads* |
*The actual number of threads employed during a database search can depend on many factors, including microprocessor capabilities, whether the processor is real or virtual, the job size, the amount of memory available, and the number of threads requested; it may also depend on whether the computer is operating on battery vs. line current. A search may be unable to run at all or may run very slowly if insufficient memory is available for even a single thread. Standard Edition may utilize at most 2 processors (2 threads) in a virtual machine environment, regardless of the number of processors configured for the virtual machine.
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