CUDA-Sankoff: Using GPU to Accelerate the Pairwise Structural RNA Alignment

Daniel Sundfeld, Jakob H. Havgaard, Jan Gorodkin, Alba C.M.A. De Melo

    2 Citations (Scopus)

    Abstract

    In this paper, we propose and evaluate CUDASankoff, a solution to the RNA structural alignment problem based on the Sankoff algorithm in Graphics Processing Units (GPUS). To our knowledge, this is the first time the Sankoff algorithm is implemented in GPU. In our solution, we show how to linearize the Sankoff 4-dimensional dynamic programming (4D DP) matrix and we propose a two-level wavefront approach to exploit the parallelism. The results were obtained with two different NVidia GPUS, comparing sets of real RNA sequences with lengths from 46 to 281 nucleotides. We show that our GPU approach is up to 24 times faster than a 16-core CPU solution in the 281 nucleotide Sankoff execution.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationProceedings : 2017 25th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Processing, PDP 2017
    Number of pages8
    PublisherIEEE
    Publication date2017
    Pages295-302
    Article number7912663
    ISBN (Electronic)9781509060580
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2017
    Event25th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Processing, PDP 2017 - St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
    Duration: 6 Mar 20178 Mar 2017

    Conference

    Conference25th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Processing, PDP 2017
    Country/TerritoryRussian Federation
    CitySt. Petersburg
    Period06/03/201708/03/2017

    Keywords

    • CUDA
    • GPU
    • RNA
    • Sankoff Algorithm

    Fingerprint

    Dive into the research topics of 'CUDA-Sankoff: Using GPU to Accelerate the Pairwise Structural RNA Alignment'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

    Cite this