Hughey R
University of California, Santa Cruz 95064, USA.
Comput Appl Biosci. 1996 Dec;12(6):473-9. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/12.6.473.
Sequence comparison, a vital research tool in computational biology, is based on a simple O(n2) algorithm that easily maps to a linear array of processors. This paper reviews and compares high-performance sequence analysis on general-purpose supercomputers and single-purpose reconfigurable, and programmable co-processors. The difficulty of comparing hardware from published performance figures is also noted.
序列比对是计算生物学中的一种重要研究工具，它基于一种简单的O(n2)算法，该算法可轻松映射到线性处理器阵列。本文回顾并比较了通用超级计算机、专用可重构处理器和可编程协处理器上的高性能序列分析。文中还指出了根据已公布的性能数据比较硬件的困难。
