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Professor Department of Computer Engineering at the Catholic University of Murcia, José María Cecilia Canales, has worked on a project to resolve, through computers, complex problems whose calculations are intractable by humans.
José María Cecilia has investigated the development of intelligent applications that take their inspiration in the behavior of biological systems, in particular the behavior of ants.
The investigation has accomplished during his stay at the prestigious University of Illinois (USA) where he worked with Professor Wen-Mei Hwu, considered one of the best in this area.
Among the application fields of studies such as the one developed by Professor of Computer UCAM, is protein folding, a fundamental problem for the solution of many of the major diseases of today.
José María Cecilia Canales says the power of today's computers is amazing, "however, realize the potential of these machines to meet the latest challenges of science, like discovering effective drugs to combat diseases such as cancer, Parkinson or Alzheimer, is not a simple task. "
Similarly adds that "we need to develop intelligent applications, in addition to modeling these problems, are able to take advantage of these hardware resources, and to achieve solutions in a short period of time to move quickly on these challenges. According to professor says UCAM, this research stay has established links with one of the most prestigious universities in the U.S., which puts Murcia university at the forefront of research in the field of high performance computing environments applied to Bioinformatics .
It should be noted that the period of research at the American University has been funded by the European Network of Excellence for High Performance Computing (HiPEAC), whose mission is to lead and enhance European research in the field of high performance systems and wardrobes and stimulate cooperation between academia and industry.
Source: UCAM
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