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Article: MICA: A fast short-read aligner that takes full advantage of Many Integrated Core Architecture (MIC)

TitleMICA: A fast short-read aligner that takes full advantage of Many Integrated Core Architecture (MIC)
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Issue Date2015
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BMC Bioinformatics, 2015, v. 16 n. suppl. 7, article no. S10 How to Cite?
AbstractBackground: Short-read aligners have recently gained a lot of speed by exploiting the massive parallelism of GPU. An uprising alterative to GPU is Intel MIC; supercomputers like Tianhe-2, currently top of TOP500, is built with 48,000 MIC boards to offer ~55 PFLOPS. The CPU-like architecture of MIC allows CPU-based software to be parallelized easily; however, the performance is often inferior to GPU counterparts as an MIC card contains only ~60 cores (while a GPU card typically has over a thousand cores). Results: To better utilize MIC-enabled computers for NGS data analysis, we developed a new short-read aligner MICA that is optimized in view of MIC's limitation and the extra parallelism inside each MIC core. By utilizing the 512-bit vector units in the MIC and implementing a new seeding strategy, experiments on aligning 150 bp paired-end reads show that MICA using one MIC card is 4.9 times faster than BWA-MEM (using 6 cores of a top-end CPU), and slightly faster than SOAP3-dp (using a GPU). Furthermore, MICA's simplicity allows very efficient scale-up when multiple MIC cards are used in a node (3 cards give a 14.1-fold speedup over BWA-MEM). Summary: MICA can be readily used by MIC-enabled supercomputers for production purpose. We have tested MICA on Tianhe-2 with 90 WGS samples (17.47 Tera-bases), which can be aligned in an hour using 400 nodes. MICA has impressive performance even though MIC is only in its initial stage of development. Availability and implementation: MICA's source code is freely available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/mica-aligner under GPL v3. Supplementary information: Supplementary information is available as "Additional File 1". Datasets are available at www.bio8.cs.hku.hk/dataset/mica.
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dc.contributor.authorLUO, R-
dc.contributor.authorCHAN, SH-
dc.contributor.authorLAW, WC-
dc.contributor.authorHe, G-
dc.contributor.authorYu, C-
dc.contributor.authorLIU, CM-
dc.contributor.authorZhou, D-
dc.contributor.authorLi, Y-
dc.contributor.authorLi, R-
dc.contributor.authorWang, J-
dc.contributor.authorZhu, X-
dc.contributor.authorPeng, S-
dc.contributor.authorLam, TW-
dc.date.accessioned2015-08-21T13:28:36Z-
dc.date.available2015-08-21T13:28:36Z-
dc.date.issued2015-
dc.identifier.citationBMC Bioinformatics, 2015, v. 16 n. suppl. 7, article no. S10-
dc.identifier.issn1471-2105-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/215514-
dc.description.abstractBackground: Short-read aligners have recently gained a lot of speed by exploiting the massive parallelism of GPU. An uprising alterative to GPU is Intel MIC; supercomputers like Tianhe-2, currently top of TOP500, is built with 48,000 MIC boards to offer ~55 PFLOPS. The CPU-like architecture of MIC allows CPU-based software to be parallelized easily; however, the performance is often inferior to GPU counterparts as an MIC card contains only ~60 cores (while a GPU card typically has over a thousand cores). Results: To better utilize MIC-enabled computers for NGS data analysis, we developed a new short-read aligner MICA that is optimized in view of MIC's limitation and the extra parallelism inside each MIC core. By utilizing the 512-bit vector units in the MIC and implementing a new seeding strategy, experiments on aligning 150 bp paired-end reads show that MICA using one MIC card is 4.9 times faster than BWA-MEM (using 6 cores of a top-end CPU), and slightly faster than SOAP3-dp (using a GPU). Furthermore, MICA's simplicity allows very efficient scale-up when multiple MIC cards are used in a node (3 cards give a 14.1-fold speedup over BWA-MEM). Summary: MICA can be readily used by MIC-enabled supercomputers for production purpose. We have tested MICA on Tianhe-2 with 90 WGS samples (17.47 Tera-bases), which can be aligned in an hour using 400 nodes. MICA has impressive performance even though MIC is only in its initial stage of development. Availability and implementation: MICA's source code is freely available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/mica-aligner under GPL v3. Supplementary information: Supplementary information is available as "Additional File 1". Datasets are available at www.bio8.cs.hku.hk/dataset/mica.-
dc.languageeng-
dc.relation.ispartofBMC Bioinformatics-
dc.rightsThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.-
dc.titleMICA: A fast short-read aligner that takes full advantage of Many Integrated Core Architecture (MIC)-
dc.typeArticle-
dc.identifier.emailHe, G: gzhe2@HKUCC-COM.hku.hk-
dc.identifier.emailLam, TW: twlam@cs.hku.hk-
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dc.identifier.doi10.1186/1471-2105-16-S7-S10-
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