Details a real-world product that applies a cutting-edge multi-core architecture

Increasingly demanding modern applications such as those used in telecommunications networking and real-time processing of audio, video, and multimedia streams require multiple processors to achieve computational performance at the rate of a few giga-operations per second. This necessity for speed and manageable power consumption makes it likely that the next generation of embedded processing systems will include hundreds of cores, while being increasingly programmable, blending...

Introducing parallel architectures, their corresponding programming paradigms and their bioinformatics application, this title provides background on sequential bioinformatics algorithms and parallel architectures such as multi-cores, cell B.E., GPUs and FPGAs.