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Although deep learning-based methods currently outperform conventional approaches in distinguishing true variants from complex sequencing noise, they impose prohibitive computational and time requirements. To address this limitation, we present a computational framework based on Clair3 that integrates parallelized feature generation, enhanced variant phasing, in-memory read haplotagging, and GPU-accelerated neural network inference to accelerate variant calling. By dynamically optimizing the use of both GPU and CPU resources, our method achieves substantial runtime improvements without compromising accuracy. We evaluated our framework across a range of sequencing depths, diverse samples, and multiple hardware configurations. 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