QDX co-founder Giuseppe Barca awarded prestigious Gordon Bell Prize, pioneering advancements in drug discovery technology

QDX proudly announces that the team led by its co-founder, Associate Professor Giuseppe Barca, has been honoured with the 2024 ACM Gordon Bell Prize, often referred to as the "Nobel Prize of high-performance computing." This accolade recognizes their groundbreaking work in quantum chemistry simulations, which is set to revolutionize QDX's drug discovery technology.

The award-winning project, titled "Breaking the Million-Electron and 1 EFLOP/s Barriers: Biomolecular-Scale Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics Using MP2 Potentials," was a collaborative effort involving researchers from the Barca group at the University of Melbourne, the Australian National University, and QDX; along with researchers from Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., and Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Utilizing the Frontier supercomputer, the team achieved quantum-accurate simulations of biological systems at an unprecedented scale, marking a significant milestone in computational chemistry.

Loong Wang, Co-Founder and CEO of QDX, added, "Giuseppe's recognition with the Gordon Bell Prize is a testament to the innovative spirit at QDX. His work exemplifies our mission to integrate cutting-edge computational techniques into drug discovery, paving the way for more effective treatments. We are excited to see how these advancements will continue to drive our efforts in developing solutions for complex diseases."