Here is an example of an abstract of a paper presented at CUG 2005 for a session under In-house and 3rd Party Software

Authors: Eric Stahlberg, Joseph Fernando, and Kevin Wohlever (OSC)

Title: Accelerated Biological Meta-Data Generation and Indexing on the Cray XD1

Abstract: The volume and diversity of biological information to be integrated in comparative bioinformatics studies continues to grow. Increasingly, the information is unstructured and without appreciable annotation necessary to make the necessary associations for comparative analysis. The FPGA and the Cray XD1 in particular provide a means to rapidly generate the dynamic metadata information needed to enhance the value of unstructured and semi-structured data. Similar to efforts required of compression and encryption, the presentation will showcase efforts at the OSC center for data intensive computing to employ FPGA technology to the challenge of generalized biological sequence indexing as a foundation for comparative analysis and subsequent predictive inference.