RNA structural dynamics as captured by molecular simulations: a comprehensive overview

J Sponer, G Bussi, M Krepl, P Banáš, S Bottaro… - Chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
With both catalytic and genetic functions, ribonucleic acid (RNA) is perhaps the most
pluripotent chemical species in molecular biology, and its functions are intimately linked to …

GPU-accelerated molecular dynamics and free energy methods in Amber18: performance enhancements and new features

TS Lee, DS Cerutti, D Mermelstein, C Lin… - Journal of chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
We report progress in graphics processing unit (GPU)-accelerated molecular dynamics and
free energy methods in Amber18. Of particular interest is the development of alchemical free …

A comprehensive perspective on pilot-job systems

M Turilli, M Santcroos, S Jha - ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 2018 - dl.acm.org
Pilot-Job systems play an important role in supporting distributed scientific computing. They
are used to execute millions of jobs on several cyberinfrastructures worldwide, consuming …

Middleware building blocks for workflow systems

M Turilli, V Balasubramanian, A Merzky… - … in Science & …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper describes a building-block approach to the design of scientific workflow systems.
We discuss RADICALCybertools as one implementation of building-block concept, showing …

Exploring RNA structure and dynamics through enhanced sampling simulations

V Mlýnský, G Bussi - Current opinion in structural biology, 2018 - Elsevier
RNA function is intimately related to its structural dynamics. Molecular dynamics simulations
are useful for exploring biomolecular flexibility but are severely limited by the accessible …

[PDF][PDF] Radical-pilot: Scalable execution of heterogeneous and dynamic workloads on supercomputers

A Merzky, M Santcroos, M Turilli, S Jha - CoRR, abs/1512.08194, 2015 - researchgate.net
Traditionally high-performance computing (HPC) systems have been optimized to support
mostly monolithic workloads. The workload of many important scientific applications …

Asynchronous replica exchange software for grid and heterogeneous computing

E Gallicchio, J Xia, WF Flynn, B Zhang… - Computer physics …, 2015 - Elsevier
Parallel replica exchange sampling is an extended ensemble technique often used to
accelerate the exploration of the conformational ensemble of atomistic molecular …

Adaptive ensemble biomolecular applications at scale

V Balasubramanian, T Jensen, M Turilli, P Kasson… - SN Computer …, 2020 - Springer
Recent advances in both theory and methods have created opportunities to simulate
biomolecular processes more efficiently using adaptive ensemble simulations. Ensemble …

P-ETL: Parallel-ETL based on the MapReduce paradigm

M Bala, O Boussaid, Z Alimazighi - 2014 IEEE/ACS 11th …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Big data is an opportunity in the emergence of novel business applications such as “Big
Data Analytics”(BDA). However, these data with non-traditional volumes create a real …

Integrating abstractions to enhance the execution of distributed applications

M Turilli, F Liu, Z Zhang, A Merzky… - 2016 IEEE …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
One of the factors that limits the scale, performance, and sophistication of distributed
applications is the difficulty of concurrently executing them on multiple distributed computing …