Publication Type
Conference Paper
Book Title
Proceeding of Many-core and Reconfigurable Supercomputing Conference
Publication Date
Page Number
1
Publisher Location
Belfast, Ireland
Conference Name
Many-core and Reconfigurable Supercomputing Conference (MRSC08)
Conference Location
Belfast, Ireland
Conference Sponsor
Queen's University & Institute for Electrnics, Communications and Information Technology, Belfast
Conference Date
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Abstract
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.