Mitrionics and SGI Demonstrate Open Source Accelerated Bioinformatics Applications at ISMB/ECCB Conference 2007

VIENNA, AUSTRIA--(MARKET WIRE)--Jul 23, 2007 -- ISMB/ECCB Booth # 2-3 -- Mitrionics(TM) AB, developer of the Mitrion(TM) Software Acceleration Platform and the Mitrion Virtual Processor, will, together with SGI®, developer of the SGI® RASC(TM) RC100 and SGI BLAST accelerator, be demonstrating its latest open source, FPGA-accelerated bioinformatics applications at the 15th International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) & 6th European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB) being held this July 20-25, 2007 in Vienna, Austria. Located in the SGI booth number 2-3, Mitrionics will be featuring its Mitrion Development Platform, the Mitrion Virtual Processor, and the recently released Mitrion-accelerated NCBI BLAST-n bioinformatics application. Leveraging powerful and energy-efficient FPGAs from Xilinx, the ultra-fast memory subsystem in SGI® Altix® servers and the Mitrion Virtual Processor, the Mitrion Accelerated NCBI BLAST is able to run 60 times faster in sustained operation on one FPGA as compared to running on one core of a 2.8GHz Dual Core AMD Opteron Processor 8220 SE.(1)