BGI Crunches Human Genome With GPU Chips

Jan 9, 2012, 01:30 AM by Michael Croft

Wired.com | China's BGI, the world's largest genome sequencing center, has switched to servers that use GPUs built by Nvidia, helping slash the genome analysis time by more than an order of magnitude. But challenges in data representation and interpretation remain.

January 9, 2012 | BGI, the world's largest genome sequencing center in Shenzhen, China, has switched to servers that use GPUs built by Nvidia, helping slash the genome analysis time by more than an order of magnitude. But challenges in data representation and interpretation remain. Wired.com