Support for IBM Integrated Accelerator for Z Sort

[michaelmhoffman]

This is a feature request. I have been using BEDTools on Linux on an IBM z15 mainframe, and while most things work quite well, bedtools sort is not fast enough for the huge workloads I have.

My z15 has IBM's Integrated Accelerator for Z Sort coprocessor, and BEDTools doesn't seem to be using it. It seems likely that taking advantage of dedicated hardware sorting acceleration would speed up bedtools sort a lot.

I'm not sure if it is possible to access the sorting coprocessor using Linux, so implementing this may require porting BEDTools to z/OS first.

Thanks again for this great piece of software!

[kasperdanielhansen]

This issue is a barrier to professional usage of BEDTools.

[arq5x]

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[agitter]

Any updates on this?