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EXSCALATE: An extreme-scale in-silico virtual screening platform to evaluate 1 trillion compounds in 60 hours on 81 PFLOPS supercomputers by Gadioli, Davide; Vitali, Emanuele; Ficarelli, Federico; Latini, Chiara; Manelfi, Candida; Talarico, Carmine; Silvano, Cristina; Cavazzoni, Carlo; Palermo, Gianluca; Beccari, Andrea Rosario is a scholarly article available to read on EtoBox.

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The social and economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic demands the reduction of the time required to find a therapeutic cure. In the contest of urgent computing, we re-designed the Exscalate molecular docking platform to benefit from heterogeneous computation nodes and to avoid scaling issues. We deployed the Exscalate platform on two top European supercomputers (CINECA-Marconi100 and ENI-HPC5), with a combined computational power of 81 PFLOPS, to evaluate the interaction between 70 billions of small molecules and 15 binding-sites of 12 viral proteins of Sars-Cov2. The experiment lasted 60 hours and overall it performed a trillion of evaluations.

Author

Gadioli, Davide; Vitali, Emanuele; Ficarelli, Federico; Latini, Chiara; Manelfi, Candida; Talarico, Carmine; Silvano, Cristina; Cavazzoni, Carlo; Palermo, Gianluca; Beccari, Andrea Rosario

Published

2021

Language

EN