High Performance Computing on an IBM Cell Processor

Bioinformatics

Team MembersKyle Byerly

Shannon McCormickMatt Rohlf

Bryan Venteicher

AdvisorDr. 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

root@ps3:/#

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

Questions?