Title
On low‐power SoCs as storage bricks for Bioinformatics
Abstract
In the perspective of energy-efficient storage solutions supporting scientific computing, we investigate the possibility of using low-power Systems-On-Chip (SoCs) as storage bricks of a BeeGFS file system in support of a realistic genome sequencing pipeline from Bioinformatics. Metadata and data performances of such a file system made of low-power devices are assessed via various benchmarks for an increasing number of clients accessing the data, and compared to those achieved with traditional power-hungry architectures with a similar BeeGFS setup. Then, we show how the sequencing information streamed by portable sequencing devices, such as the Oxford Nanopore MinION, can be managed by the underlying BeeGFS file system built with low-power SoCs.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1002/cpe.5415
CONCURRENCY AND COMPUTATION-PRACTICE & EXPERIENCE
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Bioinformatics,energy-awareness,energy-efficiency,Metagenomics,storage solutions,System-On-Chip
Journal
32.0
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
SP10.0
1532-0626
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.36
0
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Lucia Morganti1175.02
Elena Corni2103.65
Luca Lama310.36
Carmelo Pellegrino410.36
Francieli Zanon Boito510.36
Ivan Merelli629435.36
Daniele D'Agostino713023.39
Daniele Cesini8309.51