Mersenne twister: a 623-dimensionally equidistributed uniform pseudo-random number generator
ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation (TOMACS) - Special issue on uniform random number generation
Journal of Global Optimization
OpenMP: An Industry-Standard API for Shared-Memory Programming
IEEE Computational Science & Engineering
GPU acceleration of a production molecular docking code
Proceedings of 2nd Workshop on General Purpose Processing on Graphics Processing Units
IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine
A fair comparison of modern CPUs and GPUs running the genetic algorithm under the knapsack benchmark
EvoApplications'12 Proceedings of the 2012t European conference on Applications of Evolutionary Computation
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The objective in molecular docking is to determine the best binding mode of two molecules in silico. A common application of molecular docking is in drug discovery where a large number of ligands are docked against a protein to identify potential drug candidates. This is a computationally intensive problem especially if flexibility of the molecules are taken into account. In this paper we show how MolDock, which is a high accuracy method for flexible molecular docking using a variant of differential evolution, can be parallelised on both CPU and GPU. The methods presented for parallelising the workload result in an average speedup of 3.9x on a 4-core CPU and 27.4x on a comparable CUDA enabled GPU when docking 133 ligands of different sizes. Furthermore, the presented parallelisation schemes are generally applicable and can easily be adapted to other common flexible docking methods.