Section: Bilateral Contracts and Grants with Industry

Sequence Comparison, Kalray

Parallelization of PLAST on many cores : This collaboration aims to implement he PLAST software on the MPPA chip (256 cores) developed by the Kalray company. PLAST is a BLAST-like parallel implementation of the bank to bank genomic sequence comparison problem. More generally, the purpose, here, is to investigate the performances of the MPPA architecture on scientific life science software. This is a bilateral contract of 4 months, from April to August 2013.