The days when bioinformatics tools will be so reliable to become a standard aid in routine clinical diagnostics are getting very close. However, it is important to remember that the more complex and advanced bioinformatics tools become, the more performances are required by the computing platforms. Unfortunately, the cost of High Performance Computing (HPC) platforms is still prohibitive for both public and private medical practices. Therefore, to promote and facilitate the use of bioinformatics tools it is important to identify low-cost parallel computing solutions. This paper presents a successful experience in using the parallel processing capabilities of Graphical Processing Units (GPU) to speed up classification of gene expression profiles. Results show that using open source CUDA programming libraries allows to obtain a significant increase in performances and therefore to shorten the gap between advanced bioinformatics tools and real medical practice.

GPU cards as a low cost solution for efficient and fast classification of high dimensional gene expression datasets / Benso, Alfredo; DI CARLO, Stefano; Politano, GIANFRANCO MICHELE MARIA; Savino, Alessandro; Scionti, A.. - In: CONTROL ENGINEERING AND APPLIED INFORMATICS. - ISSN 1454-8658. - STAMPA. - 12:3(2010), pp. 34-40.

GPU cards as a low cost solution for efficient and fast classification of high dimensional gene expression datasets

BENSO, Alfredo;DI CARLO, STEFANO;POLITANO, GIANFRANCO MICHELE MARIA;SAVINO, ALESSANDRO;
2010

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The days when bioinformatics tools will be so reliable to become a standard aid in routine clinical diagnostics are getting very close. However, it is important to remember that the more complex and advanced bioinformatics tools become, the more performances are required by the computing platforms. Unfortunately, the cost of High Performance Computing (HPC) platforms is still prohibitive for both public and private medical practices. Therefore, to promote and facilitate the use of bioinformatics tools it is important to identify low-cost parallel computing solutions. This paper presents a successful experience in using the parallel processing capabilities of Graphical Processing Units (GPU) to speed up classification of gene expression profiles. Results show that using open source CUDA programming libraries allows to obtain a significant increase in performances and therefore to shorten the gap between advanced bioinformatics tools and real medical practice.
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