In this paper, we consider the problem of scheduling distributed biological sequencecomparison applications. This problem lies in the divisible load framework with negligible communication costs. Thus far, very few results have been proposed in this model. We discuss and select relevant metrics for this framework: namely max-stretch and sum-stretch. We explain the relationship between our model and the preemptive uni-processor case, and we showhow to extend algorithms that have been proposed in the literature for the uni-processor model to the divisible multi-processor problem domain. We recall known results on closely related problems, we show how to minimize the max-stretch on unrelated machines either in the divisible load model or with ...