On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Amar Shan wrote: > Does anyone on the list have any experience with using some of the > commercially available FPGA accelerators for Bioinformatics applications > (e.g. from Timelogic)? I run one of each here, a DeCypher and a Paracel system. Integrating them seamlessly with the farm is the tricky part. The Pfam group here manage to use the DeCypher with fair amount of success. We are still working on the Paracel system, as it it more tricky to pipeline, as we have one of the older machines. Paracel now sell a product that includes 20odd Intel CPUs in conjunction with an accelerator. I don't think this is too bad an idea at all if it comes out cost neutral... Depends on how much genewise/hmm's you plan to run. The accelerators really win in this segment. J. -- Dr. James Cuff Group Leader - Informatics Systems Group Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SA, UK. Tel: +44 (0) 1223-494880 Fax: +44 (0) 1223-494919