title: Supercomputing with toys: harnessing the power of NVIDIA 8800GTX and playstation 3 for bioinformatics problem.
abstract: Modern video cards and game consoles typically have much better performance to price ratios than that of general purpose CPUs. The parallel processing capabilities of game hardware are well-suited for high throughput biomedical data analysis. Our initial results suggest that game hardware is a cost-effective platform for some computationally demanding bioinformatics problems.
authors.affiliation: Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience Institute and Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
authors.forename: Justin
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wilson
authors.forename: Manhong
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Dai
authors.forename: Elvis
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Jakupovic
authors.forename: Stanley
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Watson
authors.forename: Fan
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Meng
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D019295:Computational Biology / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods*; D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D008838:Microcomputers; D018511:Systems Integration; D018910:Video Games