CHTC — Center for High Throughput Computing
CHTC — Center for High Throughput Computing
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Enabling Large-Scale and Ultra-Large AlphaFold3 Predictions with Distributed High-Throughput Computing

Danny Morales at HTC26
June 9, 2026
CHTC facilitator Danny Morales explains how his team solved AlphaFold3's core HTC challenge: routing jobs to nodes where the 750 GB reference database is already staged, rather than transferring it per job. By treating data as a schedulable resource via HTCondor ClassAds and caching alignments for reuse, they cut preprocessing by ~89% and enabled protein-protein interaction screenings at a scale previously impossible on distributed systems.
HTC26
Biology
Facilitation
AlphaFold
HTCondor
Research Computing
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