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Edge, Fog, and Cloud Against Disease: The Potential of High-Performance Cloud Computing for Pharma Drug Discovery

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High Performance Computing for Drug Discovery and Biomedicine

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The high-performance computing (HPC) platform for large-scale drug discovery simulation demands significant investment in speciality hardware, maintenance, resource management, and running costs. The rapid growth in computing hardware has made it possible to provide cost-effective, robust, secure, and scalable alternatives to the on-premise (on-prem) HPC via Cloud, Fog, and Edge computing. It has enabled recent state-of-the-art machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI)-based tools for drug discovery, such as BERT, BARD, AlphaFold2, and GPT. This chapter attempts to overview types of software architectures for develo** scientific software or application with deployment agnostic (on-prem to cloud and hybrid) use cases. Furthermore, the chapter aims to outline how the innovation is disrupting the orthodox mindset of monolithic software running on on-prem HPC and provide the paradigm shift landscape to microservices driven application programming (API) and message parsing interface (MPI)-based scientific computing across the distributed, high-available infrastructure. This is coupled with agile DevOps, and good coding practices, low code and no-code application development frameworks for cost-efficient, secure, automated, and robust scientific application life cycle management.

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I am grateful to my PhD student, Pratik Patil, for discussion on cloud deployment architecture, good coding practice, and API development, Vedant Bonde for assistance with proofreading and improving the readability of the manuscript significantly.

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Bonde, B. (2024). Edge, Fog, and Cloud Against Disease: The Potential of High-Performance Cloud Computing for Pharma Drug Discovery. In: Heifetz, A. (eds) High Performance Computing for Drug Discovery and Biomedicine. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2716. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-3449-3_8

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