Technology dictates algorithms: recent developments in read alignment

M Alser, J Rotman, D Deshpande, K Taraszka, H Shi… - Genome biology, 2021 - Springer
Aligning sequencing reads onto a reference is an essential step of the majority of genomic
analysis pipelines. Computational algorithms for read alignment have evolved in …

[HTML][HTML] From molecules to genomic variations: Accelerating genome analysis via intelligent algorithms and architectures

M Alser, J Lindegger, C Firtina, N Almadhoun… - Computational and …, 2022 - Elsevier
We now need more than ever to make genome analysis more intelligent. We need to read,
analyze, and interpret our genomes not only quickly, but also accurately and efficiently …

A modern primer on processing in memory

O Mutlu, S Ghose, J Gómez-Luna… - … computing: from devices …, 2022 - Springer
Modern computing systems are overwhelmingly designed to move data to computation. This
design choice goes directly against at least three key trends in computing that cause …

Rethinking software runtimes for disaggregated memory

I Calciu, MT Imran, I Puddu, S Kashyap… - Proceedings of the 26th …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Disaggregated memory can address resource provisioning inefficiencies in current
datacenters. Multiple software runtimes for disaggregated memory have been proposed in …

Processing-in-memory: A workload-driven perspective

S Ghose, A Boroumand, JS Kim… - IBM Journal of …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Many modern and emerging applications must process increasingly large volumes of data.
Unfortunately, prevalent computing paradigms are not designed to efficiently handle such …

GenASM: A high-performance, low-power approximate string matching acceleration framework for genome sequence analysis

DS Cali, GS Kalsi, Z Bingöl, C Firtina… - 2020 53rd Annual …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Genome sequence analysis has enabled significant advancements in medical and scientific
areas such as personalized medicine, outbreak tracing, and the understanding of evolution …

GenStore: A high-performance in-storage processing system for genome sequence analysis

N Mansouri Ghiasi, J Park, H Mustafa, J Kim… - Proceedings of the 27th …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Read map** is a fundamental step in many genomics applications. It is used to identify
potential matches and differences between fragments (called reads) of a sequenced …

FPGA-based near-memory acceleration of modern data-intensive applications

G Singh, M Alser, DS Cali, D Diamantopoulos… - IEEE Micro, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Modern data-intensive applications demand high computational capabilities with strict
power constraints. Unfortunately, such applications suffer from a significant waste of both …

Accelerating genome analysis: A primer on an ongoing journey

M Alser, Z Bingöl, DS Cali, J Kim, S Ghose… - IEEE Micro, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Genome analysis fundamentally starts with a process known as read map**, where
sequenced fragments of an organism's genome are compared against a reference genome …

NERO: A near high-bandwidth memory stencil accelerator for weather prediction modeling

G Singh, D Diamantopoulos… - … Conference on Field …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ongoing climate change calls for fast and accurate weather and climate modeling. However,
when solving large-scale weather prediction simulations, state-of-the-art CPU and GPU …