BGI Uses GPU-Accelerated Genomics

Dec 22, 2011, 00:35 AM by Michael Croft

HPC Wire | BGI is using GPU-accelerated computing to process its genomics data. Thanks to NVIDIA GPUs , BGI is able to sequence 6 trillion base pairs per day and have a stored database totaling 20 PB.

December 22, 2011 | BGI is using GPU-accelerated computing to process its genomics data. Thanks to NVIDIA GPUs , BGI is able to sequence 6 trillion base pairs per day and have a stored database totaling 20 PB. The architecture of the GPU is particularly suitable for DNA data crunching, thanks to its many simple cores and its high memory bandwidth. HPC Wire