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ArticleBioMed research international2014

A combined MPI-CUDA parallel solution of linear and nonlinear Poisson-Boltzmann equation.

José Colmenares, Antonella Galizia, Jesús Ortiz, Andrea Clematis, Walter Rocchia

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Article in BioMed research international, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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José ColmenaresDrug Discovery and Development, Italian Institute of Technology, 16163 Genova, Italy ; Department of Geosciences, University of Padova, 35131 Padova, Italy.
Antonella GaliziaIMATI, CNR, 16149 Genova, Italy.
Jesús OrtizDepartment of Advanced Robotics, Italian Institute of Technology, 16163 Genova, Italy.
Andrea ClematisIMATI, CNR, 16149 Genova, Italy.
Walter RocchiaDrug Discovery and Development, Italian Institute of Technology, 16163 Genova, Italy.

Funding

New Generation DelPhi: large systems and beyond electrostaticsR01GM093937 · NIGMS · CLEMSON UNIVERSITY · PI ALEXOV, EMIL GEORGIEV · 2010 to 2023
$4.3M
NIGMS NIH HHS 1R01GM093937-01NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM093937
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Abstract

The Poisson-Boltzmann equation models the electrostatic potential generated by fixed charges on a polarizable solute immersed in an ionic solution. This approach is often used in computational structural biology to estimate the electrostatic energetic component of the assembly of molecular biological systems. In the last decades, the amount of data concerning proteins and other biological macromolecules has remarkably increased. To fruitfully exploit these data, a huge computational power is needed as well as software tools capable of exploiting it. It is therefore necessary to move towards high performance computing and to develop proper parallel implementations of already existing and of novel algorithms. Nowadays, workstations can provide an amazing computational power: up to 10 TFLOPS on a single machine equipped with multiple CPUs and accelerators such as Intel Xeon Phi or GPU devices. The actual obstacle to the full exploitation of modern heterogeneous resources is efficient parallel coding and porting of software on such architectures. In this paper, we propose the implementation of a full Poisson-Boltzmann solver based on a finite-difference scheme using different and combined parallel schemes and in particular a mixed MPI-CUDA implementation. Results show great speedups when using the two schemes, achieving an 18.9x speedup using three GPUs.

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Computational BiologyProtein ConformationStatic ElectricityAlgorithmsComputer SimulationModels, MolecularProteinsSoftwareProteins

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