TY - GEN
T1 - Practical implementation of a network-based Stochastic biochemical simulation system on an FPGA
AU - Yoshimi, Masato
AU - Nishikawa, Yuri
AU - Osana, Yasunori
AU - Funahashi, Akira
AU - Hiroi, Noriko
AU - Shibata, Yuichiro
AU - Yamada, Hideki
AU - Kitano, Hiroaki
AU - Amano, Hideharu
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - Stochastic simulation of biochemical reaction networks are widely focused by life scientists to represent stochastic behaviors in cellular processes. Stochastic algorithm has loop-and thread-level parallelism, and it is suitable for running on application specific hardware to achieve high performance with low cost. We have implemented and evaluated the FPGA-based stochastic simulator according to theoretical research of the algorithm. This paper introduces an improved architecture for accelerating a stochastic simulation algorithm called the Next Reaction Method. This new architecture has scalability to various size of FPGA. As the result with a middle-range FPGA, 5.38 times higher throughput was obtained compared to software running on a Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.40GHz.
AB - Stochastic simulation of biochemical reaction networks are widely focused by life scientists to represent stochastic behaviors in cellular processes. Stochastic algorithm has loop-and thread-level parallelism, and it is suitable for running on application specific hardware to achieve high performance with low cost. We have implemented and evaluated the FPGA-based stochastic simulator according to theoretical research of the algorithm. This paper introduces an improved architecture for accelerating a stochastic simulation algorithm called the Next Reaction Method. This new architecture has scalability to various size of FPGA. As the result with a middle-range FPGA, 5.38 times higher throughput was obtained compared to software running on a Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.40GHz.
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U2 - 10.1109/FPL.2008.4630034
DO - 10.1109/FPL.2008.4630034
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:54949091196
SN - 9781424419616
T3 - Proceedings - 2008 International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications, FPL
SP - 663
EP - 666
BT - Proceedings - 2008 International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications, FPL
T2 - 2008 International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications, FPL
Y2 - 8 September 2008 through 10 September 2008
ER -