Progeniq Launches Next-generation BioBoost v4.0 Accelerator

摘要

Progeniq Pte Ltd, a leader in reconfigurable computing applications headquartered in Singapore, launched the BioBoost v4.0 Accelerator for Bioinfbrmatics. The BioBoost v4.0 turbo charges new generation multi-core CPU processors that are available on the market. The BioBoost provides hardware accelerated processing for the most computationally intensive applications in Bioinformatics—NCBI BLAST, Smith Waterman, HMMer and ClustalW. Processing these protein searches will be cut from months to days, and weeks to hours and minutes. By utilizing improved Field Programable Gate Array (FPGA) technology, the fourth generation BioBoost is able to accelerate the applications by up to 50 times, and consumes little energy compared with a CPU cluster.