On the Migration of the Scientific Code Dyana from SMPs to Clusters of PCs and on to the Grid

Dyana is a molecular biology code used in the study of infectious prion proteins. Like many other scientific codes, Dyana was migrated successfully from vector supercomputers to a more cost-effective cluster of commodity PCs. A further migration to a widely distributed grid computing platform looks very tempting because many of these platforms promise the use of nearly free compute-cycles on the Internet