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Table 4 Peak memory requirements for each scenario

From: Theoretical accuracy for indirect predictions based on SNP effects from single-step GBLUP

Scenarios

Peak memory requirement (GB)a

BLUPF90

POSTGSF90

PREDF90

direct

195.60

228

11.6

apy

208.50

238

11.6

50K

182.75

211

11.6

40K

103.60

157

11.6

30K

69.40

113

11.6

20K

26.69

78

11.6

10K

5.65

52

11.6

5K

2.50

42

11.6

2K

0.63

38

11.6

core (15K)

18.50

63

11.6

hacc (15K)

17.90

63

11.6

core_prog (15K)

17.90

63

11.6

hacc_prog (15K)

18.20

63

11.6

  1. aReal/resident memory (RSS); Linux server (x86_64) equipped with Intel Xeon E5-2470 2.30 GHz processors with 16 cores
  2. direct: all genotyped animals (N = 54,533) and phenotypes with direct \({\textbf{G}}^{-{\bf{1}}}\); apy: all genotyped animals (N = 54,533) and phenotypes with APY \({\textbf{G}}^{-{\bf{1}}}\); 50K-2K: all phenotypes and decreasing the number of genotyped animals from 50K to 2K; core: genotypes for core animals only (N = 15K) and all phenotypes; hacc: genotypes for high accuracy animals only (N = 15K) and all phenotypes; core_prog: genotypes and phenotypes for core animals plus their progeny phenotypes; hacc_prog: genotypes and phenotypes for high accuracy animals plus their progeny phenotypes