TAIPEI, TAIWAN, Dec. 30, 2019 –Focusing on the big data accelerated platform, WASAI has developed the genome sequencing accelerated platform for a while. In the beginning of this December, WASAI announced the completion of the genome sequencing accelerated solution on Intel® PAC with Arria® 10 GX FPGA, which enables 5 to 9 times of effectiveness than the traditional CPU for germline whole exome sequencing /whole genome sequencing.
Calvin Hung, CEO of WASAI Technology, pointed out “Intel and us have been using Intel® PAC with Arria® 10 GX FPGA in the big data acceleration for a long time. This time, we apply the genome sequencing acceleration on Intel® PAC with an aim to solve the bottlenecks of DNA data analysis and to provide a better ecosystem in the field of biotechnology.”
Customers can buy the FPGA servers, which includes Intel Arria® 10 GX FPGA PAC via Intel channels. Matching with WASAI Lighting DNA Sequencing Accelerated Solution and completing GATK Best Practice pipeline promoted by Broad Institute within 7 hours, it can have more options to go with the hardware. There are many server companies, including Dell, HPE, Fujitsu, Inspur, Quanta and Supermicro and etc. providing servers with Intel Arria® 10 GX FPGA Programmable Acceleration Card for acceleration. ( For more details )
Last year, Intel announced the latest Intel® Programmable Acceleration Card (PAC) with Intel Stratix® 10 SX FPGA. WASAI CEO Calvin Hung mentioned, “the specifications of Intel Stratix® 10 SX FPGA are all better than Arria® 10 GX FPGA. We estimate that the DNA sequencing solution on Stratix® 10 SX can be able to shorten 2 times of computation time.” More importantly, WASAI has demonstrated PAC with Intel Stratix® 10 SX live demo in Intel FPGA Technology Day (IFTD) 2019 Tokyo at the end of November, which was a one step closer to fasten the analytic time on genome sequencing.
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About WASAI Technology Inc.
WASAI Technology's mission is to deliver acceleration technologies of High-Performance Data Analysis (HPDA) in future data centers for targeted vertical applications with massive volumes and high velocities of scientific data. To strengthen and advance scientific discovery and technological research via big data-intensive acceleration in high-performance computing, WASAI Technology aims to improve commercialization and commoditization of scientific and technological applications.
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