Drug Discov Today. 2008 Dec;13(23-24):1052-8. Epub 2008 Sep 16.

The impact of accelerator processors for high-throughput molecular modeling and simulation.

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Computational Biochemistry and Biophysics Lab, GRID IMIM Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona Biomedical Research Park (PRBB), C/ Doctor Aiguader 88, 08003 Barcelona, Spain. giovanni.giupponi@upf.edu

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The recent introduction of cost-effective accelerator processors (APs), such as the IBM Cell processor and Nvidia's graphics processing units (GPUs), represents an important technological innovation which promises to unleash the full potential of atomistic molecular modeling and simulation for the biotechnology industry. Present APs can deliver over an order of magnitude more floating-point operations per second (flops) than standard processors, broadly equivalent to a decade of Moore's law growth, and significantly reduce the cost of current atom-based molecular simulations. In conjunction with distributed and grid-computing solutions, accelerated molecular simulations may finally be used to extend current in silico protocols by the use of accurate thermodynamic calculations instead of approximate methods and simulate hundreds of protein-ligand complexes with full molecular specificity, a crucial requirement of in silico drug discovery workflows.

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