GPU acceleration of a production molecular docking code
Computer Architecture and Automated Design Laboratory, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University; Boston, MA 02215
In GPGPU-2: Proceedings of 2nd Workshop on General Purpose Processing on Graphics Processing Units (2009), pp. 19-27.
@conference{sukhwani2009gpu,
title={GPU acceleration of a production molecular docking code},
author={Sukhwani, B. and Herbordt, M.C.},
booktitle={Proceedings of 2nd Workshop on General Purpose Processing on Graphics Processing Units},
pages={19–27},
year={2009},
organization={ACM}
}
Modeling the interactions of biological molecules, or docking , is critical to both understanding basic life processes and to designing new drugs. Here we describe the GPU-based acceleration of a recently developed, complex, production docking code. We show how the various functions can be mapped to the GPU and present numerous optimizations. We find which parts of the problem domain are best suited to the different correlation methods. The GPU-accelerated system achieves a speedup of at least 17.7x with respect to a single core and 6.1x with respect to four cores for all likely problems sizes. This makes it competitive with FPGA-based systems for small molecule docking, and superior for proteinprotein docking.
October 27, 2010 by hgpu
