This article at Genome Technology gives a brief overview of GPGPU, with a focus on biological information processing using NVIDIA CUDA Technology. The article discusses the results from UIUC’s NAMD / VMD project and neurological simulation company Evolved Machines.

From the Evolved Machines Website:

“We simulate neuronal components closely modeled after neurons in the brain, and synthesize arrays which wire themselves by simulating neural circuit growth in three dimensions. We are the first company to harness the power of programmable GPUs for the simulation of neural computation, now achieving 100-fold acceleration of the computing power of conventional cores. We are also designing the first generation of devices truly based on brain circuitry, pioneering the fusion of neuroscience and engineering to develop new categories of machines which embed some of the capacities of biological neural systems.”