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As a result of the enormous potential of Molecular Biology to produce returns for human health, this discipline now figures as a main strategic research area. Molecular Biology has experienced a huge quantitative and qualitative jump thanks to high-throughput systems that have emerged in recent years, among these supercomputers. The challenge in the 90s was to build computers that reached the Teraflop scale. In 2007 the first computer to register 1,000 times this limit (1 Petaflop) was developed. This achievement has allowed us to exhaustively explore complex combinations of genetic variants, large scale Molecular Dynamics and high-throughput virtual screening.
In the coming years we expect to reach a computational power equivalent to 1,000-fold that of the current most powerful supercomputer (Exascale). There are three main issues in Excascale computing: i) to design computer architecture that can achieve this scale; ii) to design non-trivial software that can be scalable with a high number of processors; and iii) to choose the appropriate problems that can be tackled with this technology. With these challenges in mind, the conference “Exascale Challenges in Computational Biology” aims to bring together in Barcelona the top scientists working in bio-supercomputing in order to share and open discussion on the key questions of this field.
