Publication Type
Conference Paper
Book Title
Proceedings of the 2007 Reconfigurable Systems Summer Institute (on DVD)
Publication Date
Page Numbers
1 to 2
Conference Name
Reconfigurable Systems Summer Institute (RSSI) 2007, National Center for Supercomputer Applications (NCSA)
Conference Location
Urbana, Illinois, United States of America
Conference Sponsor
National Center for Supercomputer Applications (NCSA), OpenFPGA and Manchester University (UK)
Conference Date
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Abstract
The performance of two Cray XD1 systems with Virtex-II Pro 50 and Virtex-4 LX160 FPGAs was evaluated using the FASTA computational biology program for human genome (DNA and protein) sequence comparisons. FPGA speedups of 50X (Virtex-II Pro 50) and 100X (Virtex-4 LX160) over a 2.2 GHz Opteron were obtained. FPGA coding issues for human genome data are described.