Title
Smith-Waterman Acceleration in Multi-GPUs: A Performance per Watt Analysis.
Abstract
We present a performance per watt analysis of CUDAlign 4.0, a parallel strategy to obtain the optimal alignment of huge DNA sequences in multi-GPU platforms using the exact Smith-Waterman method. Speed-up factors and energy consumption are monitored on different stages of the algorithm with the goal of identifying advantageous scenarios to maximize acceleration and minimize power consumption. Experimental results using CUDA on a set of GeForce GTX 980 GPUs illustrate their capabilities as high-performance and low-power devices, with a energy cost to be more attractive when increasing the number of GPUs. Overall, our results demonstrate a good correlation between the performance attained and the extra energy required, even in scenarios where multi-GPUs do not show great scalability.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1007/978-3-319-56154-7_46
BIOINFORMATICS AND BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING, IWBBIO 2017, PT II
Keywords
Field
DocType
GPGPU,CUDA,DNA sequences alignment,Energy costs
CUDA,Computer science,Parallel computing,Computational science,Acceleration,Smith–Waterman algorithm,General-purpose computing on graphics processing units,Performance per watt,Energy consumption,Scalability,Power consumption
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
10209
0302-9743
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.36
12
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jesús Pérez Serrano120.73
Edans Sandes21298.94
Alba Cristina Magalhaes Alves De Melo325333.90
Manuel Ujaldon424426.71