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News Release from: Mitrionics
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 27 March 2007
Workshop on FPGA-based supercomputing
Two FPGA-based supercomputing specialists will present a full-day workshop entitled, '20x faster NCBI Blast - Practical Programming of FPGA Supercomputing Applications' from 27th to 29th March, 2007
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Mitrionics and SGI will be co-hosting a full-day workshop entitled, '20x faster NCBI Blast - Practical Programming of FPGA Supercomputing Applications' at the third 'Technical Symposium on Reconfigurable Computing' at the University of Manchester in the UK from 27th to 29th March, 2007. Mitrionics is the developer of the Mitrion Virtual Processor and software-centric Mitrion-C parallel programming language for FPGA Supercomputing acceleration and SGI is the manufacturer of FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array)-based SGI Altix family servers with SGI RASC RC100 computation blades.
The workshop will cover a broad range of topics, using the acceleration of the NCBI Blast application, as an example of a successful implementation.
The workshop is designed to provide attendees with a theoretical as well as a working knowledge of how to develop FPGA Supercomputing applications.
The SGI Life Science Briefing, presented by Dr Eng Lim Goh, SGI's CTO is at The Welcome Trust Conference Centre in Cambridge on Friday 30th March 2007.
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This briefing will provide a detailed exploration of the future of life sciences, and in particular the use of HPC in areas such as bioinformatics, cheminformatics, molecular modeling and genomics.
This interactive half-day event will give a comprehensive insight into future trends and opportunities in HPC, and their impact on research, organisations and the way business is conducted.
'This is an exciting time for Mitrionics and SGI to demonstrate the world's most widely used bioinformatics application that has been accelerated to run 20x faster on the Mitrion Virtual Processor and SGI RASC System', says Anders Dellson, CEO of Mitrionics 'We look forward to our continued strong partnership and co-operation with SGI in delivering BlastN and additional turnkey bioinformatics applications and also to accelerate applications in other industries with strong potential and interest such as financial, imaging, seismology, and encryption'.
'SGI has long been focused on accelerating our customer's critical computing workflows and making them accessible directly to end-user scientists', says Michael Brown, sciences segment manager, SGI.
'Our co-operative efforts with Mitrionics on BlastN show how some of these time-critical processes can leverage FPGA capabilities and turn long running batch jobs into interactive scientific investigation'.
'We believe that the combination of simpler application development and deployment enabled by Mitrionics software and the inherent performance, price/performance and power consumption benefits of FPGA based solutions will continue to drive adoption throughout the scientific community'.
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