Research Article

A Performance/Cost Evaluation for a GPU-Based Drug Discovery Application on Volunteer Computing

Table 4

Execution time in seconds of BINDSURF for the execution of ligand A (l1c4), ligand B (2byr), and ligand C (3p4w) in Ibercivis with different Monte Carlo steps. It is divided into total time (i.e., including submission overheads) and processing time.

Steps Total time Processing time

Ligand A (l1c4)
5 60.60 30893
10 61.88 24325
50 61.85 28469
500 130.79 31719
5000 1144.02 20840
50000 11467.09 28469

Ligand B (2byr)
5 65.5 24158
10 64.58 24116
50 69.72 43664
500 133.73 91752
5000 1161.78 27727
50000 10895.33 42469

Ligand C (3p4w)
5 72.82 46150
10 76.59 20016
50 86.77 1933
500 177.47 2016
5000 1190.0731843
50000 12660.2146150