Special-purpose computer with highly parallel pipelines for solution X-ray scattering analysis of macromolecules XSAM-2

Satoru Hosono; Hideaki Wakabayashi; Nobuyuki Masuda; Tomoyoshi Ito

doi:10.1587/elex.4.387

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Special-purpose computer with highly parallel pipelines for solution X-ray scattering analysis of macromolecules XSAM-2

Satoru Hosono, Hideaki Wakabayashi, Nobuyuki Masuda, Tomoyoshi Ito

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Keywords: hardware, special-purpose computer, solution X-ray scattering, biological macromolecule

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2007 Volume 4 Issue 12 Pages 387-392

DOI https://doi.org/10.1587/elex.4.387

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We have developed a special-purpose computer for analyzing X-ray scattering of models of macromolecules, named XSAM-2 (solution X-ray Scattering Analysis of Macromolecules). XSAM-2 contains 64 circuits operating in parallel for calculating X-ray scattering intensities using the pipeline method. XSAM-2 calculates 122 times faster than a personal computer with a Pentium 4 processor.

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