Gav, Matt Dublin here with Genome Technology, actually Mitrionics recently came up with a fairly impressive FPGA platform for Blast. http://www.mitrion.com/default.asp?pId=27 http://www.hpcwire.com/hpc/1633111.html On Aug 20, 2007, at 7:12 PM, <Gavin.Kennedy at csiro.au> wrote: > Greetings, > > > > Has anyone had recent experience with FPGA accelerators for BLAST? I'm > interested to hear whether they have advanced much since 2002, when > they > seemingly weren't delivering on their promises. I'm interested to hear > experiences with them, both at the desktop and cluster level. No > vendors > please. > > > > Gav > > > > Gavin Kennedy > > Bioinformatics Leader > > CSIRO Plant Industry > > Canberra, ACT, 2601 > > Australia > > ph: (61)2-6246-4929 > > http://www.pi.csiro.au > > > > _______________________________________________ > Bioclusters maillist - Bioclusters at bioinformatics.org > https://bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/bioclusters >