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Xilinx-powered RASC speeds up bioinformatics app

Posted: 17 Dec 2007  Print Version  Bookmark and Share Subscribe

Keywords: RASC  bioinformatics  Xilinx FPGA 

[Summary of tips] Xilinx Inc. has announced that an SGI Reconfigurable Application Specific Computing (RASC)-enabled SGI Altix system from Silicon Graphics Inc., featuring Xilinx Virtex-4 high-performance FPGAs, can accelerate the Basic Local Alignment Search Tool for nucleotides (Blast-n) bioinformatics application by more than 900 times compar......
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