Supercomputing with toys: harnessing the power of NVIDIA 8800GTX and playstation 3 for bioinformatics problem
Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience Institute and Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, United States of America
Computational systems bioinformatics / Life Sciences Society. Computational Systems Bioinformatics Conference, Vol. 6 (2007), pp. 387-390
@conference{wilson2007supercomputing,
title={Supercomputing with toys: harnessing the power of NVIDIA 8800GTX and playstation 3 for bioinformatics problem},
author={Wilson, J. and Dai, M. and Jakupovic, E. and Watson, S. and Meng, F.},
booktitle={Comput Syst Bioinformatics Conf},
volume={6},
pages={387–390},
year={2007}
}
Modern video cards and game consoles typically have much better performance to price ratios than that of general purpose CPUs. The parallel processing capabilities of game hardware are well-suited for high throughput biomedical data analysis. Our initial results suggest that game hardware is a cost-effective platform for some computationally demanding bioinformatics problems.
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