Read mapping is a fundamental, yet computationally-expensive step in many genomics
applications. It is used to identify potential matches and differences between fragments …

Processing-using-DRAM (PUD) is a processing-in-memory (PIM) approach that uses a
DRAM array's massive internal parallelism to execute very-wide (eg, 16,384-262,144-bit …

With the surge of big data applications and the worsening of the memory-wall problem, the
memory system, instead of the computing unit, becomes the commonly recognized major …

Ongoing climate change calls for fast and accurate weather and climate modeling. However,
when solving large-scale weather prediction simulations, state-of-the-art CPU and GPU …

Generating the hash values of short subsequences, called seeds, enables quickly
identifying similarities between genomic sequences by matching seeds with a single lookup …

Random number generation is an important task in a wide variety of critical applications
including cryptographic algorithms, scientific simulations, and industrial testing tools. True …

Nanopore sequencing is a widely-used high-throughput genome sequencing technology
that can sequence long fragments of a genome into raw electrical signals at low cost …

Motivation Pairwise sequence alignment is a very time-consuming step in common
bioinformatics pipelines. Speeding up this step requires heuristics, efficient implementations …

A growth in data volume, combined with increasing demand for real-time analysis (using the
most recent data), has resulted in the emergence of database systems that concurrently …

Dedicated accelerator hardware has become essential for processing AI-based workloads,
leading to the rise of novel accelerator architectures. Furthermore, fundamental differences …