IBM’s white paper on the Cell technology and Molecular Modeling
Over the past year SimBioSys has been focused on the development of eHiTS Lightning. Any of you reading our blog will have seen the many announcements and discussions about WHY we chose the Cell processor as the platform for our development. For those of you who have not seen those comments I point you to our list of blog postings below…all good reading and we certainly do not regret our decision.
The fast and the furious: compare Cell/B.E., GPU and FPGA
The wow factor at the BIO-IT World Expo
Fastest supercomputer built on the Cell/BE
Our peers in the world of software development for virtual screening and docking have talked with us a number of times regarding “How’s it going with the Cell?”, always with interest and generally with a “that’s a major commitment to a platform” in their comments. We are committed to Cell..we believe we will hear more about this processor for scientific applications in the future. In doing our port we have had the privilege of working with some excellent people at IBM in regards to optimizing the port to Cell. We are proud to say that there views can be summarized with “you guys did an excellent port!” from IBM Cell specialists. We have recently finished a White paper with IBM that will be distributed to the scientific community via both of our organizations and thank them for their work in putting that together with us. A copy of the White paper is available online here: Using Cell Broadband Engine Technology to Improve Molecular Modeling Applications