I am starting to explore amazon servicies to perform bioinformatics on illumina sequencing reads. Recently I read about Graviton2 which is based on ARM architecture. I am curious if the the most used software to perform genome assembly ie. spades or megahit could work on ARM architecture.
Any comments are welcome
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If source code is available, recompiling makes sense. The development kits are there.
There are some tips on compiling to ARM targets like the Graviton2 in this document:
An idea is to replace calls to Intel SIMD intrinsics with ARM NEON calls, when compiling the relevant tools.
It's basically: edit, compile, benchmark.
The conda people have been having a go, but it seems understandably like a work in progress:
There's a link in there to Anaconda's support announcement: https://www.anaconda.com/blog/anaconda-aws-graviton2
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