ROACH accelerated BLAST

Includes abstract. === Includes bibliographical references (p. 115-118). === Reconfigurable computing, in recent years, has been taking great strides in becoming part of mainstream computing largely due to the rapid growth in the size of FPGAs and their ability to adapt to certain complex applicatio...

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Main Author: Macleod, David
Other Authors: Inggs, Michael
Format: Dissertation
Language:English
Published: University of Cape Town 2015
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12234
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Summary:Includes abstract. === Includes bibliographical references (p. 115-118). === Reconfigurable computing, in recent years, has been taking great strides in becoming part of mainstream computing largely due to the rapid growth in the size of FPGAs and their ability to adapt to certain complex applications efficiently. This dissertation investigates the reuse of application specific hardware developed for radio astronomy in accelerating a popular bioinformatics algorithm.