Starbridge Hypercomputer Completes X to Y Chromosome Comparison in Five DaysSourceStarbridge's Hypercomputing Technology Applied to the Smith Waterman Algorithm Searches Very Large Sets of Genetic Data in Record-Breaking TimeSalt Lake City, Utah (March 23, 2004)- Starbridge Systems®, Inc., announced today that it completed a Smith Waterman comparison of the human X chromosome to Y chromosome in five days. This data processing feat typically requires weeks or months of computation time on large clusters or custom supercomputer hardware. Starbridge accomplished the "grand challenge" task with the company's patented Hypercomputer® hardware and an implementation of the Smith Waterman pattern-matching algorithm written in Viva®, Starbridge's powerful parallel architecture synthesis language.
Smith Waterman searches provide extremely detailed results, but have historically run much more slowly than heuristic tools such as BLAST. The Starbridge Hypercomputing solution offers a compelling price/performance breakthrough-a Smith Waterman implementation that processes far larger data sets and returns significantly more detailed results than a typical BLAST search-and at significantly faster speed than today's BLAST tools.
"Starbridge Hypercomputing now enables scientists engaged in genome scale research to use Smith Waterman searches as a practical tool, no longer sacrificing sensitivity for speed," said Daniel Oswald, President and CEO of Starbridge Systems. "Genetics is just one of many fields that can benefit from Starbridge solutions. With Hypercomputers and Viva, large scale, data-intensive applications become inexpensive to execute, vast amounts of new information can be discovered, and the palette of tools for serious research is increased."
Other Uses for HypercomputingStarbridge Systems has deployed its technology for such research and development organizations as the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, U.S. Air Force, universities, and supercomputer centers. Starbridge is also developing applications for use in the seismic data processing market.
Starbridge Systems: The Hypercomputer CompanyUtah-based Starbridge Systems was founded in 1998 to advance reconfigurable computing technologies, creating the powerful, high-performance Hypercomputer platforms. Compared with conventional processors, Starbridge's scalable Hypercomputers offer significant advantages in speed, flexibility, versatility and efficiencies of size, weight and power consumption. Starbridge's Viva development environment turns months into minutes by supporting highly parallel expression of algorithms and optimally configuring the Hypercomputer hardware for peak execution of each algorithm.
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