DocumentCode
2380762
Title
GPU acceleration of simulation tool for lipid-bilayers
Author
Shkurti, A. ; Acquaviva, Andrea ; Ficarra, Elisa ; Macii, Enrico ; Orsi, Mario ; Ruggiero, Maltino
Author_Institution
Control & Comput. Eng. Dept., Politec. di TorinoTorino, Torino, Italy
fYear
2010
fDate
18-18 Dec. 2010
Firstpage
849
Lastpage
850
Abstract
Nowadays the need for powerful hardware architectures, which allow for high throughput data analysis and calculus, is fundamental especially for biological applications. We have been focused on utilizing the Graphic Processing Unit (GPU) architectures of NVIDIA for accelerating a lipid bilayer simulation tool for biomembranes.
Keywords
biology computing; biomembranes; coprocessors; lipid bilayers; simulation; GPU based simulation tool acceleration; NVIDIA GPU architecture; biomembranes; graphic processing unit; high throughput data analysis; lipid bilayer simulation tool; CUDA; Coarse Grain; GPU Acceleration; Lipid Bilayer Modelling; Membrane Modelling; Molecular Dynamics;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Bioinformatics and Biomedicine Workshops (BIBMW), 2010 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location
Hong, Kong
Print_ISBN
978-1-4244-8303-7
Electronic_ISBN
978-1-4244-8304-4
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/BIBMW.2010.5703940
Filename
5703940
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