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ArticleParallel computing2022

Benchmarking the Performance of Irregular Computations in AutoDock-GPU Molecular Docking.

Leonardo Solis-Vasquez, Andreas F Tillack, Diogo Santos-Martins, Andreas Koch, Scott LeGrand, Stefano Forli

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Article in Parallel computing, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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12 citing papers in PubMed.

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6 authors.

Leonardo Solis-VasquezEmbedded Systems and Applications Group. Technical University of Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany.
Andreas F TillackDepartment of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology. The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, United States.
Diogo Santos-MartinsDepartment of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology. The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, United States.
Andreas KochEmbedded Systems and Applications Group. Technical University of Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany.
Scott LeGrandNVIDIA Corporation. Santa Clara, CA, United States.
Stefano ForliDepartment of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology. The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, United States.

Funding

AutoDock Suite: Next Generation Environment for Drug DesignR01GM069832 · NIGMS · SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, THE · PI FORLI, STEFANO · 2004 to 2025
$10.9M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM069832
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Irregular applications can be found in different scientific fields. In computer-aided drug design, molecular docking simulations play an important role in finding promising drug candidates. AutoDock is a software application widely used for predicting molecular interactions at close distances. It is characterized by irregular computations and long execution runtimes. In recent years, a hardware-accelerated version of AutoDock, called AutoDock-GPU, has been under active development. This work benchmarks the recent code and algorithmic enhancements incorporated into AutoDock-GPU. Particularly, we analyze the impact on execution runtime of techniques based on early termination. These enable AutoDock-GPU to explore the molecular space as necessary, while safely avoiding redundant computations. Our results indicate that it is possible to achieve average runtime reductions of 50% by using these techniques. Furthermore, a comprehensive literature review is also provided, where our work is compared to relevant approaches leveraging hardware acceleration for molecular docking.

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AutoDockCUDAearly terminationmolecular dockingOpenCLVariable execution performance

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PMID34898769
PMCPMC8654209

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