GPU acceleration of finding LPRs in DNA sequence based on SUA index

Abstract

The repetitions in biological sequence analysis are of great biological significance. Finding the repetitions has been a hot topic in gene projects naturally. In recent years, graphics processing unit (GPU) has been far exceeded the CPU in terms of computing capability and memory bandwidth, especially CUDA dramatically increases in computing performance by harnessing the power of the GPUs. This paper proposes efficient parallel algorithms on CUDA to accelerate finding PTRs which is redefined as LPRs based on the SUA Index. The proposed parallel algorithms have been utilized with the parallel primitives offered by Thrust library and the effective parallel bit compression technology based on division to achieve better acceleration. Optimization techniques include CUDA streams technology are also realized to reduce transmission latency. Experimental results show that the proposed parallel algorithms are faster than the benchmark with 1.6~5.4 speedup.