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### Are open-source codes available to study protein folding?

I would like to test the influence of solvation parameters in implicit solvation models and wonder which codes are freely available as standalone programs for protein folding of small proteins, and ...
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### Can quantum methods be applied to the protein-ligand docking problem?

In the problem of protein-ligand docking, most of the time people are happy if they can just predict the final conformation the ligand adopts into the protein's binding pocket. Most of the time one ...
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### Adaptive mesh refinement with perfectly matched layers?

We have an adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) code for solving the elastic wave equation with frictional fault interfaces (based on Chombo for those that are interested). One of the things that we have ...
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### How useful is PETSc for Dense Matrices?

Wherever I have seen, PETSc tutorial/documents etc. say that it is useful for linear algebra and usually specifies that sparse systems will benefit. What about dense matrices? I am concerned about ...
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### Implementing a fair scheduling policy on Maui/Torque

We have Maui and Torque on our lab's UNIX cluster. Right now, all jobs are served by FIFO. We'd like to implement a more fair policy, but I have not successfully implemented it. The online ...
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### Diffusion kernel “guide”

Diffusion kernels are kernels which "project" information about graphs into $R^n$ so that certain machine learning techniques can be performed. I have read through this paper and feel fairly ...
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### Is it possible to use BLAS if I have a function rather than a matrix?

My matrix sizes have grown beyond what can fit on the RAM but I have a function which defines each element cheaply. Is it possible use BLAS (in Fortran or even in MATLAB) in such cases? If I had a ...