Illumina Corporation

David Kimmel

Eunho Noh

Paul R Smith

Paul Smith

Coordinated application processing includes obtaining a plurality of images and distributing them to processing engines to perform image processing. The plurality of images cover an image area, with different sub-areas, in which a biological sample to be sequenced is present. The image processing proceeds across multiple cycles to process a respective set of images, of the plurality of images, of each sub-area of the different sub-areas, and therefore of the respective area, of the flow cell, to which that sub-area correlates. The distributing the plurality of images includes, for each sub-area of the different sub-areas, distributing, across the multiple cycles of the image processing, the images of the respective set of images of that sub-area to a respective processing engine, of a plurality of processing engines, associated with, and selected for, processing images of that sub-area.

Coordinated application processing

Coordinated application processing. A method identifies processing engines available for coordinated application processing, distributes to the processing engines an application configured for execution to perform image processing, and distributes images to the processing engines. The images cover an image area that includes multiple different sub-areas, where the image processing proceeds across multiple cycles of image processing to process a respective set of images of each sub-area of the multiple different sub-areas, and where the distributing the images includes, for each sub-area of the multiple different sub-areas: selecting for that sub-area a respective processing engine of the processing engines to perform the image processing across the multiple cycles to process the respective set of images of that sub-area, and distributing, across the multiple cycles of the image processing, the images of the respective set of images of that sub-area to the respective processing engine selected for that sub-area.

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David Kimmel