High Performance Computing on an IBM Cell Processor Bioinformatics Team Members Kyle Byerly Shannon McCormick Matt Rohlf Bryan Venteicher Advisor Dr. Zhao Zhang

Problem Statement and Solution Increased data amount to process Exponentially growing data sets Limited budgets Cell Broadband Engine Inexpensive Uniquely suited for the data sets

Block Diagram

System Description Cell Broadband Engine  1 PPE, up to 8 SPE  PPE is a dual core PowerPC processor  SPE is vector processor BioPerf  Suite of bioinformatics applications used for benchmarking

Operating Environment Linux PlayStation 3 Room temperature Dry

User Interface

Functional Requirements Ported applications shall run on the Cell/B.E. Ported applications shall return the same results as the original applications Ported applications shall return their running time for comparisons

Non-functional Requirements Performance

Market Survey 'Exploring the Viability of the Cell Broadband Engine for Bioinformatics Applications' by Sachdeva, Kistler, Speight, and Tzeng Jinxu Ding, graduate student at ISU Risk: A group completes all BioPerf applications before we do

Deliverables Source code to two ported BioPerf applications Benchmarks

Work Breakdown Structure

Resource Requirements PlayStation 3 Algorithms books Bioinformatics information

Project Schedule

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