The X9DRG-QF that I bought with the two Intel that were donated and the 128GB Micron memory will have the HD 7970 running POEM. These GPU cards pull less watts so it should work well and not generate too much heat as per reviews on YouTube.
I will use this card (has good double precision) for the POEM project only. If I see that this works okay, I will get a three Radeon HD 6990 GPU cards little by little and keep working on POEM on this computer.
GPUGRID, Worl Community Grid and POEM have the same (more or less) goal of researching for ways to get rid of illness.
http://boinc.fzk.de/poem/index.php?section=about
Our project in detail
The figure illustrates the
predicted (red) and the experimental (green) structure of the bacillus
suptilus major cold shock protein, an universal nucleic acid binding
domain. Such proteins are important for gene regulation under
environmental stress.
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These functions include all cellular chemistry (metabolism), energy conversion (photosynthesis) and transport (oxygen transport), signal processing in the brain (neurons), immune response and many others, often with an efficiency unmatched by any man-made process. Protein malfunction is often related to diseases and thousands disease-related proteins have been identified to date, many with still unknown structure.
To understand, control or even design proteins we need to study protein structure, which is experimentally much harder to obtain than the information about the chemical composition (sequence) of a specific protein.
As of late, our core department of protein structure prediction has been complemented by other nanoscale molecule simulations. Within the scope of polymer crystallography we are e.g. researching conformations of organic hydrocarbonates.
Still focusing on proteins, this project keeps the established title POEM@HOME nevertheless.
By joining this project you will contribute to a computational approach to
- predict the biologically active structure of proteins
- understand the signal-processing mechanisms when the proteins interact with one another
- understand diseases related to protein malfunction or aggregation
- develop new drugs on the basis of the three-dimensions structure of biologically important proteins.
- simulate miscellaneous nanoscale systems, which are of importance for current biological or physical research
Technical backbone of the POEM@HOME project is our simulation framework SIMONA (SImulation of MOlecular and NAnoscale systems), which is released under an open source license, and is available here.
So please help us, by joining POEM@HOME, solve the scientific mysteries described above and decipher the biological information encoded in proteins of unknown structure.
POEM@HOME is a purely academic, non-profit project to improve our understanding of biomolecular structure and function. All substantial result of POEM@HOME will be published in international peer reviewed journals with proper credit to the POEM@HOME volunteers.

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