Chinese Lab Speeds Through Genome Processing With GPUs

Posted by timothy on Sunday January 8, 2012 @08:54AM from the looking-for-the-reset-button dept.

Eric Smalley writes "The world's largest genome sequencing center once needed four days to analyze data describing a human genome. Now it needs just six hours. The trick is servers built with graphics chips — the sort of processors that were originally designed to draw images on your personal computer. They're called graphics processing units, or GPUs — a term coined by chip giant Nvidia. This fall, BGI — a mega lab headquartered in Shenzhen, China — switched to servers that use GPUs built by Nvidia, and this slashed its genome analysis time by more than an order of magnitude."

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Re:Depends on the needs of the problem by MichaelKristopeit500 · 2012-01-08 09:41 · Score: -1, Troll

you probably WANT to check OUT "THIs"
* you're an idiot.
Re:Mike: You're the "Lon Chaney Sr." of /. (lol) by MichaelKristopeit410 · 2012-01-08 09:58 · Score: -1, Troll

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Re:An application of "ReVeRsE-PsyChoLoGy" by MichaelKristopeit411 · 2012-01-08 10:21 · Score: -1, Troll

ur mum's face're an off-topic troll.
you're an ignorant hypocrite.
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