A reconfigurable architecture for the phylogenetic likelihood function

FPL 09: 19th International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 674-678

  Alachiotis, Nikolaos ^a   Stamatakis, Alexandros ^a   Sotiriades, Euripides ^b   Dollas, Apostolos ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE PRECISION; DUAL-CORE; EVOLUTIONARY RELATIONSHIPS; EXECUTION TIME; FLOATING-POINT ARITHMETIC; FPGA DEVICES; HARDWARE IMPLEMENTATIONS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MULTITHREADED; PHYLOGENETIC INFERENCE; RECONFIGURABLE ARCHITECTURE; RECONFIGURABLE FABRICS; SOFTWARE IMPLEMENTATION; XILINX TECHNOLOGY;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DIGITAL ARITHMETIC; HARDWARE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE;

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 70449838775     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/FPL.2009.5272341     Document Type: Conference Paper

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