Re: FPGA accelerators

Matthew Dublin <[email protected]> Tue, 21 Aug 2007 10:37:48 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.science.biology.informatics.clusters
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Gav,

Matt Dublin here with Genome Technology, actually Mitrionics recently  
came up with a fairly impressive FPGA platform for Blast.

http://www.mitrion.com/default.asp?pId=27

http://www.hpcwire.com/hpc/1633111.html


On Aug 20, 2007, at 7:12 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:

> Greetings,
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> Has anyone had recent experience with FPGA accelerators for BLAST? I'm
> interested to hear whether they have advanced much since 2002, when  
> they
> seemingly weren't delivering on their promises. I'm interested to hear
> experiences with them, both at the desktop and cluster level. No  
> vendors
> please.
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> Gav
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> Gavin Kennedy
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> Bioinformatics Leader
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> CSIRO Plant Industry
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> Canberra, ACT, 2601
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> Australia
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> ph: (61)2-6246-4929
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> http://www.pi.csiro.au
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