Distributed Drug Discovery
Speaker
Andrey Mokhov — Newcastle University (UK)
Date and Time
Thursday, September 20, at 10:15
Location
Polacksbacken, ITC, room 1111.
Abstract
The POETS (Partially Ordered Event Triggered Systems) computing architecture is
based on the idea of an extremely large number of small processing cores, embedded
in a fast parallel communications infrastructure tailored for small fixed-size data packets.
This talk will introduce the architecture and will describe a case study of accelerating
computational drug discovery on a POETS machine. In particular, we will look at
computing the average shortest path in protein-interaction networks, and using
distributed genetic algorithms for finding promising drug candidates.
Speaker Bio
Andrey Mokhov is a senior lecturer at the School of Engineering, Newcastle University (UK),
and a Royal Society Industry Fellow with Microsoft Research Cambridge. Andrey’s research
interests are in applying abstract mathematics and functional programming to large-scale
engineering problems. In particular, his current projects include design of asynchronous
computing architectures, as well as developing theory and libraries for software build systems.