High-throughput virtual laboratory for drug discovery using massive datasets
- National Center for Computational Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA
- NVIDIA Corporation, Santa Clara, CA, USA
- Computer Science and Mathematics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA
- Jubilee Development, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Scripps Research, San Diego, CA, USA
- Biosciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA
Time-to-solution for structure-based screening of massive chemical databases for COVID-19 drug discovery has been decreased by an order of magnitude, and a virtual laboratory has been deployed at scale on up to 27,612 GPUs on the Summit supercomputer, allowing an average molecular docking of 19,028 compounds per second. Over one billion compounds were docked to two SARS-CoV-2 protein structures with full optimization of ligand position and 20 poses per docking, each in under 24 hours. GPU acceleration and high-throughput optimizations of the docking program produced 350× mean speedup over the CPU version (50× speedup per node). GPU acceleration of both feature calculation for machine-learning based scoring and distributed database queries reduced processing of the 2.4 TB output by orders of magnitude. The resulting 50× speedup for the full pipeline reduces an initial 43 day runtime to 21 hours per protein for providing high-scoring compounds to experimental collaborators for validation assays.
- Research Organization:
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE; USDOE Office of Science (SC), Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR)
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC05-00OR22725
- OSTI ID:
- 1772255
- Alternate ID(s):
- OSTI ID: 1811403
- Journal Information:
- International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications, Journal Name: International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications Journal Issue: 5 Vol. 35; ISSN 1094-3420
- Publisher:
- SAGE PublicationsCopyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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