Chunk #19 — Findings — Improvements in PLINK 1.9 — Multicore and cluster parallelism

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Second-generation PLINK: rising to the challenge of larger and richer datasets.

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PLINK 1.9 also contains improved support for distributed computation: the –parallel flag makes it easy to split large matrix computations across a cluster, while –write-var-ranges simplifies splitting of per-variant computations.