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Conventional computing systems struggle to analyze these large-scale datasets efficiently, failing to match data generation throughput and facing energy, scalability, privacy, and security constraints. The Architecture for Health (Arch4Health) initiative identifies key computational challenges and explores how computer architects can enable high-performance, energy-efficient, low-cost, private, and secure biological data analysis.","Architecture for Health Initiative (Arch4Health): Computational Challenges in Health-Related Applications and the Role of Computer Architecture in Addressing Them  \nNika Mansouri Ghiasi* ETH Zürich Switzerland  \nKonstantina Koliogeorgi* ETH Zürich Switzerland  \nOnur Mutlu ETH Zürich Switzerland  \narXiv :2606 .22685v1 [ cs .AR] 21 Jun 2026  \nAbstract  \nRecent biotechnological advances enable high-throughput, lowcost, and accurate biological data generation. This wealth of data enables unique opportunities for advancing healthcare. Despite these opportunities, efficiently analyzing large-scale biological data poses significant challenges for conventional computing systems. These systems often cannot keep up with the high-throughput rate at which data is generated, and they face additional constraints related to energy efficiency, scalability, privacy, and security. Therefore, to facilitate the wide adoption of recent advances in healthcare, there is a need to optimize the computing systems to enable highperformance, energy-efficient, low-cost, private, and secure analysis of biological data.  \nWe introduce the Architecture for Health (Arch4Health) initiative, which aims to (i) identify and analyze key computational challenges in current and future health-and life science-related applications and (ii) explore how computer architects and computing system designers can advance healthcare by addressing these challenges. In this short paper, we first present the motivations behind the Arch4Health initiative and, second, elaborate on its vision and goals, related topics, Arch4Health workshops, and future outlooks.  \n1 Motivation  \nRecent advances in biotechnology and sensing technologies have enabled high-throughput, low-cost, and accurate biological data generation. Modern sequencing platforms [1–33] and other omics technologies [34] can generate massive amounts of biological data (genomics [35–88, 88–109], transcriptomics [110–121], proteomics [122–127], and metabolomics [128–132]) at rapidly decreasing costs. Similarly, multimodal medical imaging technologies [133–138] produce high-resolution data that capture complex physiological and pathological processes. Wearable and implantable sensing devices [139–143] continuously monitor physiological signals such as heart activity, glucose levels, oxygen saturation in real time. Together, these advances have created an unprecedented volume of heterogeneous health-and life science-related data.  \nThis wealth of data creates unique opportunities for advancing healthcare and biomedical discovery, such as precision medicine [144–151], where treatments and therapeutic strategies can be tailored to the genetic and physiological characteristics of individual patients. Large-scale genomic and clinical datasets also advance personalized medicine [144–146, 148–172], tracking outbreaks of communicable diseases [173–198], cancer research [199– 245], bedside personalized care [246], agriculture [247–262], ensuring food safety [263, 264], scientific discovery [265–267], biodiversity conservation [268, 269], evolutionary biology [270–287] . Continuous physiological monitoring via wearable sensors further  \n∗ Both authors contributed equally to this paper.  \nenables proactive and preventive healthcare by enabling early detection of anomalies [288] and timely clinical intervention [289, 290] .  \nDespite these opportunities, efficiently analyzing large-scale biological data poses significant challenges for conventional computing systems. First, these systems often cannot keep up with the highthroughput rate at which data is generated. For example, modern sequencing platforms can generate data at rates that create substantial computational bottlenecks in downstream analysis, including sequence alignment and variant calling [36, 291–296] . Similarly, images are generated at a pace that exceeds the throughput of image reconstruction analytics and machine learning-based inference. 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