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Research: PILLARARENE-BINDING-PREDICTION Folding Project #18430

Project #18430 overview

Project Summary AI Beta

The project relates to simulating how small molecules fit inside special shapes called pillararenes. These simulations help scientists predict how well drugs will bind to their targets, which is important for developing new medicines.
Automated summary; simplified and may not be fully accurate.

Project team

Manager(s)
Prof. Vincent Voelz
Institution
Temple University

Work unit

Atoms
6,650
Core
0xa8
Status
Public

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Source material

Official Project Description

These projects are simulations of so-called "host-guest" interactions, designed to test our ability to accurately predict the free energy of ligand binding.

The "host" in this particular system is a barrel-shaped pillarene with acidic functional groups, while the "guests" are cationic small molecules that like to bind inside the barrel.

Benchmarks like these are essential to continue advancing computational drug discovery efforts.

Performance data

Hardware Performance for Project 18430

Compare community-sampled Folding@Home output for the GPUs and CPUs processing this project.

Data as of Friday, 14 August 2026 15:26:01

CPU PPD Averages Beta

Rank
Project
CPU Model Logical
Processors (LP)
PPD-PLP
AVG PPD per 1 LP
ALL LP-PPD
(Estimated)
Make
1 RYZEN 7 5700G 16 43,930 702,880 AMD
2 RYZEN 9 3900X 12-CORE 24 21,923 526,152 AMD
3 RYZEN 5 5600X 6-CORE 12 17,732 212,784 AMD
4 RYZEN 7 3700X 8-CORE 16 12,501 200,016 AMD
5 CORE I7-8700 CPU @ 3.20GHZ 12 10,881 130,572 Intel
6 CORE I7-7700 CPU @ 3.60GHZ 8 14,350 114,800 Intel
7 RYZEN 5 2600 SIX-CORE 12 6,135 73,620 AMD
8 CORE I7-3720QM CPU @ 2.60GHZ 8 8,217 65,736 Intel
9 CORE I5-4570 CPU @ 3.20GHZ 4 14,539 58,156 Intel
10 CORE I5-4690 CPU @ 3.50GHZ 4 14,278 57,112 Intel
11 RYZEN 3 3200G 4 11,756 47,024 AMD
12 CORE I5-3570 CPU @ 3.40GHZ 4 9,603 38,412 Intel
13 CORE I5-4690K CPU @ 3.50GHZ 4 8,632 34,528 Intel
14 CORE I5-3570K CPU @ 3.40GHZ 4 4,668 18,672 Intel