Justin Wilson, Manhong Dai, Elvis Jakupovic, S. Watson, F. Meng
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引用次数: 13
Abstract
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.