Stanford release research paper on GPU folding

Started by delanvital, May 14, 2009, 02:53:23 PM

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QuoteWe're happy to announce a new paper (#63 at http://folding.stanford.edu/English/Papers).  This paper describes the code behind the Folding@home GPU clients, detailing how they work, how we achieved such a significant speed up on GPUs, and other implementation details.  
For those curious about the technical details, I've pasted our technical abstract below:

   ABSTRACT. We describe a complete implementation of all-atom protein molecular dynamics running entirely on a graphics processing unit (GPU), including all standard force field terms, integration, constraints, and implicit solvent. We discuss the design of our algorithms and important optimizations needed to fully take advantage of a GPU. We evaluate its performance, and show that it can be more than 700 times faster than a conventional implementation running on a single CPU core.


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Note the "700 times" :blink:. They also make the software available for others, outside fah, so for those techies that care, go here