Hoang’s paper demonstrated the absolutely massive speedup potential present in FPGA acceleration for DNA sequence matching, showing that a single Splash 2 board (consisting of 17 Xilinx 4010 FPGAs) should be two orders of magnitude faster than a MasPar MP-1, a SIMD supercomputer uniquely suited to this problem. A full 16-board Splash 2 configuration would be sixteen times faster. Comparisons wi...

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