ITR: Intelligent Memory Architectures and Algorithms to Crack the Protein Folding Problem

EIA-0081307 Torrellas，Josep伊利诺伊大学ITR：智能内存架构和算法来破解蛋白质折叠问题这个项目是一个多学科的努力，设计从根本上改进的算法，硬件和软件来解决蛋白质折叠问题。 该项目由硬件、软件和计算生物学方面的专家组成，有望在蛋白质折叠的应用方面取得进展，如药物设计和对疾病的理解。 此外，该项目还将研究基于先进IC技术的新硬件和软件。 正在研究的架构将在单个芯片中增加处理器和存储器的集成，软件将利用存储器和处理的接近性。 这项工作与IBM Blue Gene的工作紧密结合，但将研究互补的问题。 特别是，基于仿真的研究将调查下一代智能架构的使用。

EIA-0081307Torrellas, JosepUniversity of IllinoisITR: Intelligent Memory Architectures and Algorithms to Crack the Protein Folding ProblemThis project is a multidisciplinary effort to design fundamentally improved algorithms, hardware, and software to solve the protein folding problem. The project, which teams experts in hardware, software, and computational biology, promises advances in applications of protein folding such as drug design and understanding of diseases. In addition, the project will investigate new hardware and software based on advancing IC technology. The architecture under examination will use increased integration of processors and memory in a single chip, and software will take advantage of the proximity of memory and processing. This work is tightly coupled to the IBM Blue Gene effort, but will investigate complementary issues. In particular, simulation-based studies will investigate the use of next-generation intelligent architectures.