Re: FPGA accelerators

Gavin,

You might want to check out the work of Roger Chamberlain's group at
Washington University.  See his 2005 paper "Acceleration of Ungapped
Extension in Mercury BLAST" (
http://www.ccrc.wustl.edu/~roger/papers/lbc05.pdf).

-Dan Thomasset

On 8/20/07, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
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> 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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