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Accelerating Genome Sequencing 100-1000X with FPGAs

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OSTI ID:936292
The performance of FPGAs on Cray XD1 and SGI/RASC systems (with Virtex-II Pro 50 and Virtex-4 LX160 FPGAs) was evaluated for human genome sequencing using FASTA1 and BLAST2, respectively. Scalable speedups of 100X for a Virtex-4 FPGA (and exceeding 1000X for multiple FPGAs) over a 2.2 GHz Opteron were achieved. Similar FPGA speedups were achieved using BLAST on a SGI/RASC system at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Research Organization:
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
Sponsoring Organization:
ORNL LDRD Director's R&D
DOE Contract Number:
AC05-00OR22725
OSTI ID:
936292
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English