  A novel processing-in-storage (PRinS) architecture based on Resistive CAM
(ReCAM) is described and proposed for Smith-Waterman (S-W) sequence alignment.
The ReCAM massively-parallel compare operation finds matching base-pairs in a
fixed number of cycles, regardless of sequence length. The ReCAM PRinS S-W
algorithm is simulated and compared to FPGA, Xeon Phi and GPU-based
implementations, showing at least 4.7x higher throughput and at least 15x lower
power dissipation.
