On Accelerating Pair-HMM Computations in Programmable Hardware
Subho S. Banerjee, Mohamed el-Hadedy, Ching Y. Tan, Zbigniew T. Kalbarczyk, Steve Lumetta, and Ravishankar K. Iyer
FPL 2017
Abstract
This paper explores hardware acceleration to significantly improve the runtime of computing the forward algorithm on Pair-HMM models, a crucial step in analyzing mutations in sequenced genomes. We describe 1) the design and evaluation of a novel accelerator architecture that can efficiently process real sequence data without performing wasteful work; and 2) aggressive memoization techniques that can significantly reduce the number of invocations of, and the amount of data transferred to the accelerator. We describe our demonstration of the design on a Xilinx Virtex 7 FPGA in an IBM Power8 system. Our design achieves a 14.85× higher throughput than an 8-core CPU baseline (that uses SIMD and multi-threading) and a 147.49× improvement in throughput per unit of energy expended on the NA12878 sample.
Citation
@inproceedings{Banerjee2017_FPL,
author={S. S. {Banerjee} and M. {el-Hadedy} and C. Y. {Tan} and Z. T. {Kalbarczyk} and S. {Lumetta} and R. K. {Iyer}},
booktitle={2017 27th International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL)},
title={On accelerating pair-HMM computations in programmable hardware},
year={2017},
volume={},
number={},
pages={1-8},
doi={10.23919/FPL.2017.8056837},
ISSN={1946-1488},
month={Sep.},
}