Drug Design on the Cell BroadBand Engine

  • Authors:
  • Harald Servat;Cecilia Gonzalez;Xavier Aguilar;Daniel Cabrera;Daniel Jimenez

  • Affiliations:
  • Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain;Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain;Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain;Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain;Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain

  • Venue:
  • PACT '07 Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Parallel Architecture and Compilation Techniques
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

We evaluate a well known protein docking application in the Bioinformatic field, Fourier Transform Docking (FTDock) [1], on a Blade with two 3.2GHz Cell Broadband Engine (BE) processor [2]. FTDock is a geometry complementary approximation of the protein docking problem, and uses 3D FFTs to reduce the complexity of the algorithm.