On Sat, 2006-02-11 at 08:18 -0700, Kathleen wrote: > There are alternatives to FPGAs that provide similar speedup and > scalability. I am very interested in hearing how to get a speedup of 700 on a HMM search similar to what can be achieved with a single $30,000 FPGA card. I'm not sure what a 700 CPU cluster costs, but my feeling is that it will be somewhat larger than adding an FPGA card to an existing server. > If you can utilize your existing infrastructure, but increase > performance by several orders of magnititude ... with software ... I am also interested in how I can increase my performance several orders of magnitude using my existing infrastructure. These sound like very impressive improvements. -Alan -- - Alan Kilian <kilian(at)bobodyne.com>