{"109641":{"#nid":"109641","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Bo Hong Wins Best Paper Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBo Hong received the Best Paper Award at the \n2011 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, \nheld November 12-15 in Atlanta.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAn assistant professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Georgia Tech, Dr. Hong was honored for his paper, \u0022Improving Prediction Accuracy of Protein-DNA Docking with GPU Computing.\u0022 He shares this award with two coauthors\u2013Jiadong Wu, his Ph.D. student, and Jun-tao Guo, a colleague from the Department of Bioinformatics and Biomedicine at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EProtein-DNA docking represents one of the most challenging problems in structural bioinformatics. Knowledge of how proteins interact with DNA is critical for understanding many key biological processes and for structure-based drug design. This paper describes a high performance computing method that Dr. Hong and his team have developed to tackle the protein-DNA docking problem using a GPU cluster. This protein-DNA docking algorithm integrates Monte-Carlo simulation and a simulated annealing method and has achieved 10.4 TFLOPS of sustained performance using 128 GPU cards, which represents 4\u00d7 speed up over a traditional cluster with 1000 CPU cores. Such improved computation capability accelerates the conformational space sampling for the docking algorithm and increases the chance of finding near-native protein-DNA structures.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EECE Assistant Professor Bo Hong on receiving the Best Paper Award at the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, held November 12-15, 2011 in Atlanta.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ECE Assistant Professor Bo Hong received the Best Paper Award at the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, held November 12-15 in Atlanta."}],"uid":"27241","created_gmt":"2012-02-15 16:01:37","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:11:44","author":"Jackie Nemeth","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2012-02-15T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2012-02-15T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"57047":{"id":"57047","type":"image","title":"photo of Bo Hong","body":null,"created":"1449175474","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:44:34","changed":"1475894483","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:41:23","alt":"photo of Bo Hong","file":{"fid":"190528","name":"thm68998.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/thm68998_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/thm68998_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":5213,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/thm68998_0.jpg?itok=vp5SnWpy"}}},"media_ids":["57047"],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"}],"keywords":[{"id":"1316","name":"Bo Hong"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"166855","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJackie Nemeth\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E404-894-2906\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}