Medical Area for Beowulf

[Kim Branson]

Hi,

i'm not sure if this is as "medical" you are looking for, but i built a
beowulf cluster to do drug design. I run code which is looking for
potential small molecule inhibitors from a database that will "dock" to a 
target protein. It's drug discovery and kind of medical. I also look
at properties of such small molecules.  

at the very least i've made some custom shelves in the shape of a double
helix for the cluster..thats gotta count for a bit.

theres a link at

http://www.theage.com.au/news/2000/12/11/FFXYTVALJGC.html
http://www.csiro.au/page.asp?type=faq&id=caduceus

I'll get a proper site up soon

kim

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Mr Kim Branson
Phd Student
Structural Biology
Walter and Eliza Hall Institute
Royal Parade, Parkville, Melbourne, Victoria
Ph 61 03 9662 7136
Email kim.branson at bioresi.com.au

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On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Kevin Rosenberg wrote:

> > I think, our beowulf computers can be applied to the medical area.
> > but I don't know the beowulf application examples for the sick.
> >
> > Anybody here had a experience or have a plan to apply our beowulf computers to the medical area
> 
> I use MPI processing as an option in my open-source computed tomography
> simulator: CTSim (http://www.ctsim.org). I've tested this application in a
> 16-CPU beowulf cluster with good results.
> 
> I've heard from a physician in Germany that he is using CTSim to remove
> artifacts for metallic objects prior to reconstruction. However, I'm not
> sure he is using the Beowulf-enabled version of CTSim or the single-CPU
> graphical user-interface version.
> 
> I look forward to hearing other responses to your query.
> 
> --
> Kevin Rosenberg, M.D.
> kevin at rosenberg.net
> 
> 
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