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2009
Tsinghua U.
14 years 2 months ago
Fast and scalable list ranking on the GPU
General purpose programming on the graphics processing units (GPGPU) has received a lot of attention in the parallel computing community as it promises to offer the highest perfo...
M. Suhail Rehman, Kishore Kothapalli, P. J. Naraya...
BIBE
2008
IEEE
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14 years 1 months ago
Optimizing performance, cost, and sensitivity in pairwise sequence search on a cluster of PlayStations
— The Smith-Waterman algorithm is a dynamic programming method for determining optimal local alignments between nucleotide or protein sequences. However, it suffers from quadrati...
Ashwin M. Aji, Wu-chun Feng
ASPLOS
2008
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Tapping into the fountain of CPUs: on operating system support for programmable devices
The constant race for faster and more powerful CPUs is drawing to a close. No longer is it feasible to significantly increase the speed of the CPU without paying a crushing penalt...
Yaron Weinsberg, Danny Dolev, Tal Anker, Muli Ben-...
TC
2010
13 years 5 months ago
Network-on-Chip Hardware Accelerators for Biological Sequence Alignment
—The most pervasive compute operation carried out in almost all bioinformatics applications is pairwise sequence homology detection (or sequence alignment). Due to exponentially ...
Souradip Sarkar, Gaurav Ramesh Kulkarni, Partha Pr...
BMCBI
2010
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13 years 7 months ago
Fast multi-core based multimodal registration of 2D cross-sections and 3D datasets
Background: Solving bioinformatics tasks often requires extensive computational power. Recent trends in processor architecture combine multiple cores into a single chip to improve...
Michael Scharfe, Rainer Pielot, Falk Schreiber