[Bioclusters] [Fwd: [Mpihmmer] new release of GPU-HMMER]

[Joe Landman]

Forwarded for those in need of accelerated HMMer.

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Subject: [Mpihmmer] new release of GPU-HMMER
Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2009 20:32:27 -0500
From: John Paul Walters <waltersj at buffalo.edu>
To: mpihmmer at mpihmmer.org

A new release of GPU-HMMER is available at www.mpihmmer.org. The most
notable change in the new code is support for multi-GPU systems. We
have tested the current GPU-HMMER with up to 3 GPUs, and have achieved
over 100x speedup with sufficiently large HMMs. A few bug fixes have
been applied as well, so I would encourage users to update. Users who
update should be aware that several command line options have changed,
and should check the GPU-HMMER user guide for details
(http://www.mpihmmer.org/userguideGPUHMMER.htm).

While the system requirements haven't changed from the last version,
users who intend to use multiple GPUs should be aware that they will
need a substantial amount of system memory in order to do so. The 3 GPU
system I've been using has 16GB RAM. This is probably a bit overkill,
but 8GB or so would probably be appropriate.

As always, any comments, bug reports, etc. are welcome.

best regards,
JP Walters



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