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Thermodynamic Hardware Slashes Energy Use for Drug Development Optimization

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Researchers have developed a method to perform codon optimization for drug development using thermodynamic hardware, which leverages thermal fluctuations for computation. This approach, applied to the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein, demonstrated comparable optimization quality to existing methods but with an estimated energy saving of six orders of magnitude compared to GPUs. The study, which includes open-source code, marks the first concrete pharmaceutical application mapped to this novel hardware. AI

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Thermodynamic Hardware Slashes Energy Use for Drug Development Optimization

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  1. arXiv cs.NE (Neural & Evolutionary) TIER_1 English(EN) · Ross C. Walker ·

    Energy-efficient codon optimization on thermodynamic hardware

    The growing energy demand for computation is becoming increasingly unsustainable. Thermodynamic computing, which harnesses physical thermal fluctuations as a computational resource rather than suppressing them, offers orders-of-magnitude energy savings for probabilistic and combi…

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