On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 1:20 PM, Michael Lawrence
<lawrence.michael@gene.com>wrote:

> Hi guys,
>
> I'm meeting with some people from NVidia this afternoon (just found out
> about this), and they're interested in applications of GPGPU development to
> Bioconductor. There is anecdotal evidence of GPUs being useful for pairwise
> sequence alignment, and presumably other simple tasks that are easily
> parallelized. If anyone knows of any specific potential applications,
> please
> let me know.
>

At my last job, at ISB, Ashleigh Baumgardner developed some cool code to
search mass spectrometry spectra against databases. Her GPU-based version
was 10x faster than the CPU based version.

Hope I'm not too late here, just saw your email.

Here are some links:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/fastpass/develop
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBiwvUx_3Wc

Dan

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