Guanajuato, Gto., June 30, 2016.- The Supercomputer of the University of Guanajuato (UG) –the eighth best computer in its kind in Latin America (2014-2015)—has the objective to provide an adequate infrastructure to create original, innovative projects to develop new technologies, as well as vanguard research.

Among the projects in which the supercomputer is recently used, is the development of drugs to be more efficient and less harmful with the healthy cells.

An example, is the research to find a treatment for cancer, which parts from the knowledge of the anticancer properties of certain molecules to establish diverse patterns that these molecules cover, and based on this, propose molecules that improve such circumstances and become more efficient.

Who collaborates in this research, propose mechanisms so treatments against cancer are specific, this is possible since there are vectors such as nanoparticles, to introduce anticancer drugs and be recognized only by the tumor cells.

The team "High Performance Computing Laboratory" located in the Division of Natural and Exact Sciences from the University of Guanajuato, is part of the National Laboratory of Characterization of Physical-Chemical Properties and Molecular Structure, was installed in UG with the support of the National Council of Science and Technology (CONACYT for its acronym in Spanish), the government of the State of Guanajuato and the very same UG.

Dr. Marco Antonio García Revilla, professor at the Department of Chemistry and currently responsible of such laboratory, comments that in this space they can make, in little time, complex computational calculus that collaborate in the solution of specific problems related with diverse knowledge areas.

The responsible of the laboratory pointed out that the efficiency of this kind of machine is measured according the number of operations that can perform by second and UG's supercomputer can make 10 billion operations per second, which means an efficiency thousand times higher than a common desktop computer.

It is worth mentioning that Dr. García Revilla collaborates in diverse projects, such as the characterization of materials submitted to extreme conditions of pressure and temperature, as well as in the identification of chemical interactions, using tools from diverse disciplines, such as Quantum Chemistry.