AlphaFold: a solution to a 50-year-old grand challenge in biology

Re:AlphaFold: a solution to a 50-year-old grand challenge in... by elcritch on Monday November 30, 2020 @12:59PM (#25256734)

A couple of hundred GPU's is well within the reach of many even moderately well heeled research institutes. It'd seem that about 3 weeks of compute time with 128 TPU v3's would be about $170,311.68.

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Re:AlphaFold: a solution to a 50-year-old grand challenge in... by kxs on Monday November 30, 2020 @01:22PM (#25257055)

But of course that cost would only be for the final model. Anyway, I think I am just living in a different world... :-) We could never compete with that

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Re:AlphaFold: a solution to a 50-year-old grand challenge in... by elcritch on Monday November 30, 2020 @01:26PM (#25257105)

Yah, big grant money. Now the grad students programming the open source clones will only make approximately $0.56, or 4.2 Ramen packs, for their effort. ;)

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Re:AlphaFold: a solution to a 50-year-old grand challenge in... by sdenton4 on Monday November 30, 2020 @02:12PM (#25257603)

Also with keeping in mind that once a good open source model is available, researchers with less resources can still use it to fine tune and get new results for far cheaper than training a new model from scratch.

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Re:AlphaFold: a solution to a 50-year-old grand challenge in... by intpx on Monday November 30, 2020 @01:27PM (#25257116)

or cryptominers

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