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Ables participant: School of Computer Science and Engineering, UNSW Sydney.

Project title

Accelerating nanopore basecalling on different GPU architectures

Collaborators and funding

Contact(s)

Project description and aims

Nanopore is a leading third-generation long-read sequencing technology that can sequence native DNA and RNA molecules. The output of nanopore sequencers is a current signal measurement, which is converted to nucleotide bases using a process known as basecalling. Basecalling of nanopore sequencing data from raw current signals to nucleotide bases is a computationally demanding process that often relies on neural-network inference on GPUs.

In this project, we expect support and then accelerate the basecalling process on multiple GPU architectures from different vendors, including the AMD GPUs that are available in the Pawsey supercomputer. https://github.com/BonsonW/slorado

How is ABLeS supporting this work?

This work is supported through the software accelerator scheme provided by ABLeS. The supports includes 1 TB long term storage and 20 KSUs per quarter.

Expected outputs enabled by participation in ABLeS

An opensource basecaller that can perform basecalling on multiple different GPU architectures. There could also be preprints or publications, depending on the success of this project.


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