[Bioclusters] That's a Whole Lot of Power, Mac

[chris dagdigian]

Apple just announced at the OReilly Bioinformatics Technology Conference 
today that they have collaborated with Genentech to create an Altivec 
optimized version of NCBI blast. The performance speedup is very 
impressive both for small and large word sizes. Looks very cool.

-Chris


John Scheiderer wrote:

> Very interesting article.
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