What's this all about?
The Project
GPUGRID.net is a volunteer distributed computing project for biomedical research from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona (Spain). GPUGRID is made of many graphics cards (GPUs) joined together to deliver high-performance all-atom biomolecular simulations. The molecular simulations performed by our volunteers are some of the most common types performed by scientists in the field, but they are also some of the most computationally demanding and usually require a supercomputer. Running GPUGRID on GPUs innovates volunteer computing by delivering supercomputing class applications on a cost effective infrastructure which will greatly impact the way biomedical research is performed.
Our activities pursue exclusively scientific and academic goals, with the invaluable help of all the volunteers that donate computing power to the GPUGRID.net project in order to advance scientific research. We would like to thank them all here.
The Scientists
GIANNI DE FABRITIIS, PhD // Principal Investigator
Icrea research professor at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF). He has a PhD in chemistry from University of London and Italian laurea in applied mathematics from University of Bologna. He was EPRSC (UK) research fellow for the e-science program in the Centre for Computational Science University College London. Previously, he worked for a start-up company in Italy to furnish advanced and informed decision support to biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies. He also worked in the CINECA supercomputing center.
TONI GIORGINO, PhD // Scientist
Toni Giorgino is a researcher at the Institute of Biophysics of the Italian National Research Council (IBF-CNR). He holds a degree in Physics (University of Pisa, 2001) and a PhD in Bioengineering and Bioinformatics (University of Pavia, 2005). Until 2011 he has been a post-doc research assistant at the Computational Biophysics and Biochemistry Laboratory of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (GRIB-UPF). His research interests include the application of accelerator architectures (GPUs) and high-performance computing architectures (such as BOINC and GPUGRID.net) to the modeling of complex biological systems, protein-protein and protein-drug interactions.
STEFAN DOERR // PhD student
Stefan Doerr is staff scientisit at Acellera. He holds a degree in Computer Science from the University of Crete (UOC) and a Master's degree in Computer Science with application in Biology from the Technical University of Berlin (TUB). His interests lie in the development of methods to accelerate molecular simulations as well as developing tools for the analysis of biomolecular systems.
ADRIÀ PÉREZ // PhD student
Adrià Pérez holds a degree in Biochemistry from the Universitat Autònoma deBarcelona (UAB) and a Master's degree in Bioinformatics from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF). He is currently working on his PhD project about Protein Design and Antibody Design, developing an in-silico method for protein engineering to improve their functionality.
Former members
- Pablo Herrera, PhD
- Matt Harvey, Scientist
- Gerard Martinez, PhD
- Noelia Ferruz, PhD (2011-2015)
- Nathaniel Stanley, PhD (2011-2015)
- S. Kashif Sadiq, PhD (2008-12)
- Ignasi Buch, PhD (2008-12)
- Paola Bisignano, PhD (2012-13)
