MPiDock

Advisor: Chris Lupo
Students: Lucy Brantley, Derek Nola, and Dennis Li

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Lucy Brantley, Derek Nola, and Dennis Li created MPiDocks, an open source distributed computing wrapper for the chemistry program iDock. iDock is used to compare various potential drugs to a modeled pathogen in order to find a group of potentially viable candidates for real world testing to find cures for diseases. The specific pathogen the students worked on was Zika, however after the program can be used for other pathogens. 

Previously before this Capstone project, it took their client, Dr. Eagon, about a year of computing time to finish his simulations for a Zika cure. With MPiDocks, it now only takes a week. 

This project is important because it helps cure deadly diseases. The faster a list of viable drugs can be created, the faster those drugs can be tested in order to find something that works. The faster those come out, the more lives are saved. 

In this project, the students used knowledge from Computer Architecture, Operating Systems, Parallel Programing for almost everything, as well as Distributed Computing and Systems Programming. 

Pictured above from front to back: Derek Nola, Lucy Brantley, and Dennis Li review code for computing software that will speed up chemical testing.

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For more information:
Chris Lupo
clupo(place an 'at' sign here)calpoly.edu
805-756-5659