TurboGenomics TurboBLAST for Mac OS XNew Haven 19 July 2001 TurboGenomics a provider of high-performance parallel and distributed bioinformatics software, released TurboBLAST, for Mac OS X, Apple's next-generation operating system. TurboBLAST is an accelerated, parallel implementation of the unmodified BLAST homology search application distributed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI). TurboBLAST enables scientists to increase productivity by removing the computational bottleneck in the widely used BLAST application.
TurboBLAST provides superlinear acceleration of the BLAST algorithm. It
dynamically distributes the workload across heterogeneous machine types and
operating systems, including Mac OS X, Linux, Unix, and Windows. It can run on
dedicated clusters of workstations as well as idle desktop machines to maximize
efficiency and throughput. TurboBLAST is the first product in the TurboTools
suite, a group of parallel implementations of bioinformatics algorithms to be
released by TurboGenomics.
The innovative user interface provided by Mac OS X and the speed of the PowerPC
G4 processor are an ideal combination for the scientist performing large BLAST
calculations with TurboBLAST. This release for Mac OS X leverages both the Aqua
interface and the Darwin core to yield enhanced performance and usability. In
addition, the on-board gigabit Ethernet provides a performance boost by reducing
the network overhead needed to transfer genomic databases.
Compute farms are becoming widely accepted as attractive solutions for
computationally intensive algorithms. Distributed computing systems with
parallel software implementations like TurboBLAST have proven to be cost-
effective, flexible, and fast compared to traditional supercomputing facilities.
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