An FPGA-based systolic array to accelerate the BWA-MEM genomic mapping algorithm

Ernst Houtgast; VM Sima; K Bertels; Z Al-Ars

doi:10.1109/SAMOS.2015.7363679

An FPGA-based systolic array to accelerate the BWA-MEM genomic mapping algorithm

Ernst Houtgast, VM Sima, K Bertels, Z Al-Ars

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Abstract

We present the first accelerated implementation of BWA-MEM, a popular genome sequence alignment algorithm widely used in next generation sequencing genomics pipelines. The Smith-Waterman-like sequence alignment kernel requires a significant portion of overall execution time. We propose and evaluate a number of FPGA-based systolic array architectures, presenting optimizations generally applicable to variable length Smith-Waterman execution. Our kernel implementation is up to 3x faster, compared to software-only execution. This translates into an overall application speedup of up to 45%, which is 96% of the theoretically maximum achievable speedup when accelerating only this kernel.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the International Conference on Embedded Computer Systems: Architectures, Modeling, and Simulation, SAMOS XV
Editors	D Soudris, L Carro
Place of Publication	Piscataway, NJ, USA
Publisher	IEEE
Pages	221-227
Number of pages	7
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4673-7311-1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/SAMOS.2015.7363679
Publication status	Published - 28 Dec 2015
Event	SAMOSXV, Samos, Greege - Piscataway Duration: 19 Jul 2015 → 23 Jul 2015

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Conference	SAMOSXV, Samos, Greege
Period	19/07/15 → 23/07/15

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Kernel
Arrays
Acceleration
Field programmable gate arrays
Bioinformatics
Genomics

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Houtgast, E, Sima, VM, Bertels, K & Al-Ars, Z 2015, An FPGA-based systolic array to accelerate the BWA-MEM genomic mapping algorithm. in D Soudris & L Carro (eds), Proceedings of the International Conference on Embedded Computer Systems: Architectures, Modeling, and Simulation, SAMOS XV. IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, USA, pp. 221-227, SAMOSXV, Samos, Greege, 19/07/15. https://doi.org/10.1109/SAMOS.2015.7363679

An FPGA-based systolic array to accelerate the BWA-MEM genomic mapping algorithm. / Houtgast, Ernst; Sima, VM; Bertels, K et al.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Embedded Computer Systems: Architectures, Modeling, and Simulation, SAMOS XV. ed. / D Soudris; L Carro. Piscataway, NJ, USA: IEEE, 2015. p. 221-227.

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An FPGA-based systolic array to accelerate the BWA-MEM genomic mapping algorithm

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