Pico Computing announce that the collaboration with researchers at the University of Washington has yielded up to 90X acceleration of Infernal. Infernal is a software package commonly used to identify Non-Coding Ribonucleic Acid. Infernal can take upwards of a few weeks to complete on commodity CPUs. However, with Pico’s FPGA accelerated solution, this identification process has been reduced to less than a day resulting in an up to 90X improvem...

Pico Computing is pleased to announce the availability of the M-506 FPGA module. This is Pico’s first module to feature an Altera 28-nm Stratix V FPGA. The M-506 module is the most recent addition to Pico’s scalable PCI-Express architecture, enabling users to start with a single module and grow their system by adding additional modules as their application needs increase.