Hardware accelerators for biomedical applications

适用于生物医学应用的硬件加速器

• 批准号: 239003-2010
• 负责人: Nicolici, Nicola
• 金额: $ 2.4万
• 依托单位: McMaster University
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Discovery Grants Program - Individual
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2011-01-01 至 2012-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=479054
• 关键词: Hardware; accelerators; biomedical; applications

Science and engineering have no doubt benefited from advancements in information technology over the last few decades. Scientific computations have allowed for the simulation and modeling of physical processes that would have been difficult to study otherwise. However, due to the nature of the intense calculations present in biomedical applications, the simulations are demanding in both time and energy on computing resources. For example, in computational biochemistry the study of simple molecular interactions for drug development can take days or even weeks to simulate on state-of-the-art computing platforms.

毫无疑问，科学和工程在过去几十年中受益于信息技术的进步。科学计算允许对物理过程进行模拟和建模，否则这些过程将难以研究。然而，由于生物医学应用中存在的密集计算的性质，模拟在时间和能量上对计算资源都有要求。例如，在计算生物化学中，药物开发中简单分子相互作用的研究可能需要几天甚至几周的时间才能在最先进的计算平台上进行模拟。