BACKGROUND: Our previously published CUDA-only application PaSWAS for Smith-Waterman (SW) sequence alignment of any type of sequence on NVIDIA-based GPUs is platform-specific and therefore adopted less than could be. The OpenCL language is supported more widely and allows use on a variety of hardware …

When designing for FPGAs a lot of knowledge about hardware design and FPGA technology is required. In order to try and reduce the required knowledge, TNO researches two manners of simplifying that design process. One of which is OpenCL, the other is the HDL Coder from The MathWorks. A graduation project …

This work has: •Examined, compared and evaluated 22 programming languages and environments for parallel computing on multi-core CPUs and GPUs •Chosen to use OpenMP as the standard for multi-core CPU programming and OpenCL for GPU programming •Re-implemented a number of standard and well-known algorithms …