ABSTRACT
Molecular Dynamics (MD) is one of processes that requires High Performance Computingenvironments to complete its jobs. In the preparation of virtual screening experiments, MD is one ofthe important processes particularly for tropical countries in searching for anti-Malaria drugs. Thesearch for anti-Malaria has previously conducted, for example by WISDOM project utilizing 1,700CPUS. This computing infrastructure will be one of the limitation for country like Indonesia that alsoneeds in silico anti malaria compounds searching from the country medical plants. Thus findingsuitable and affordable computing environment is very important. Our previous works showed that ourdedicated Cluster computing power with 16 cores performance better than those using fewer cores,however the GPU GTX family computing power is much better.In this study, we investigate further our previous experiment in finding more suitable computingenvironment on much better hardware specification of non dedicated Cluster computing and GPUTesla. We used two computing environments, the first one is Barrine HPC Cluster of The University ofQueensland which has 384 compute nodes with 3144 computing cores. The second one is Delta FutureGrid GPU Cluster which has 16 computing nodes with 192 computing cores, each nodes equippedwith 2 NVIDIA Tesla C2070 GPU (448 cores). The results show that running the experiment on adedicated computing power is much better than that on non dedicated ones, and the GPU performanceis still much better than that of Cluster. |
