BioIT World: Starbridge Demonstrates Its Computing Power

March 25, 2004 – Starbridge Systems has announced that it completed a full Smith-Waterman comparison of the human X chromosome to Y chromosome in five days, which the company claims is a fraction of the time normally required even when using very powerful computing systems.

Starbridge Hypercomputer Completes X to Y Chromosome Comparison in Five Days

Starbridge’s Hypercomputing Technology Applied to the Smith Waterman Algorithm Searches Very Large Sets of Genetic Data in Record-Breaking Time

Salt Lake City, Utah (March 23, 2004) – Starbridge Systems®, Inc., announced today that it completed a Smith Waterman comparison of the human X chromosome to Y chromosome in five days. This data processing feat typically requires weeks or months of computation time on large clusters or custom supercomputer hardware. Starbridge accomplished the “grand challenge” task with the company’s patented Hypercomputer® hardware and an implementation of the Smith Waterman pattern-matching algorithm written in Viva®, Starbridge’s powerful parallel architecture synthesis language.