Abstract
This paper presents the design and implementation of the FPGA-based Web server for biological sequence alignment. Central to this Web-server is a set of highly parameterisable, scalable, and platform-independent FPGA cores for biological sequence alignment. The Web server consists of an HTML-based interface, a MySQL database which holds user queries and results, a set of biological databases, a library of FPGA configurations, a host application servicing user requests, and an FPGA coprocessor for the acceleration of the sequence alignment operation. The paper presents a real implementation of this server on an HP ProLiant DL145 server with a Celoxica RCHTX FPGA board. Compared to an optimized pure software implementation, our FPGA-based Web server achieved a two order of magnitude speed-up for a pairwise protein sequence alignment application based on the Smith-Waterman algorithm. The FPGA-based implementation has the added advantage of being over 100x more energy efficient
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings - 2009 NASA/ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems, AHS 2009 |
| Publisher | IEEE |
| Pages | 361-368 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-0-7695-3714-6 |
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| Publication status | Published - 10 Nov 2009 |
| Externally published | Yes |
| Event | 2009 NASA/ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems - San Francisco, United States Duration: 29 Jul 2009 → 1 Aug 2009 |
Conference
| Conference | 2009 NASA/ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems |
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| Country/Territory | United States |
| City | San Francisco |
| Period | 29/07/09 → 1/08/09 |