Stone, John

High Performance Molecular Visualization and Analysis with GPU Computing

Stone, John, Senior Research Programmer, Theoretical and Computational Biophysics, Beckman Institute
Date: Tue 20 Oct 2009, 12:00PM
Location: Room 5602, Beckman

State-of-the-art graphics processing units (GPUs) contain hundreds of processing units and are able to perform trillions of floating point arithmetic operations per second. The newly available computational power brought by GPUs is enabling a new gener ... [more]

Dancing Proteins: 3-D Visualization of Protein Structure and Dynamics on Next-Generation Graphics Hardware

Stone, John, Senior Research Programmer, Theoretical and Computational Biophysics, Beckman Institute
Date: Tue 15 Feb 2005, Noon
Location: 3rd Floor Tower, 3269 Beckman

VMD is a molecular visualization program for displaying, animating, and analyzing large datasets associated with atomic-scale computer simulations of proteins, DNA, and nanodevices. This talk will provide an overview of the visualization capabilities of ... [more]

Linux Clusters

Stone, John, Research Programmer, Theoretical Biophysics Group, Beckman Intstitute and Phillips, Jim, Research Programmer, Theoretical Biophysics Group, Beckman Intstitute
Date: Thu 11 Nov 1999, Noon

Cluster-based parallel computing offers a cost effective means of achieving high performance on many compute intensive programs used in science. There are many issues to consider when designing a cluster for high performance scientific computation inclu ... [more]