Phase 0Land
Free, hands-on help getting a workflow running on your own work: using Salpa, building nodes and packages, runs on your own cluster.
Tell us what you work onPhase 0 is live since 1 Oct 2026
Join Salpa Foundry
Salpa Foundry is the network we are starting for people who use and build computational methods in molecular science. Its first step is simple: we work side by side with a few research groups and R&D teams, free of charge, to get their work running in Salpa.
Free · by invitation, and open to anyone who asks to join
What this is
A small first step toward a network.
It is early. Phase 0 has no platform to sign up to: we work directly with a few groups, one at a time, and find out what they actually need before we build for anyone else.
We invite people ourselves, and anyone who asks is welcome. What we learn goes into the tools, the skills and the documents that everyone can use.
About BoundaryComputingWhat you get
Free, hands-on help with three things.
From the people who build Salpa. You do not need to start with anything advanced.
Using Salpa
We work through your first workflows with you, on your own data: installing, building a graph, running it, reading the results. No experience with the app needed.
Building nodes and packages
Turn a tool or a method of yours into a node others can run. We help with the design, the testing and publishing it to the Hub. The Hub and the node tooling are open, so what you build can be shared.
Runs on your cluster
If you have an HPC account, we help you connect Salpa to it, submit a longer run, and make sense of the results.
For a fewEarly access to the Salpa assistant comes with an invitation; it is still being built, so we invite people one at a time and tell you plainly what it can and cannot do yet.
A good first task
Molecular dynamics, from a PDB code.
Give the pdbmdauto workflow any entry from the Protein Data Bank and it prepares the protein for simulation, then runs a short test.
1 Get Salpa
The app is free, for macOS, Linux and Windows. Add the pdbmdauto workflow from the Hub; it runs on Linux and macOS.
2 Bring a structure
Type any PDB code, or point to a file you already have.
3 Press Run
Eleven steps rebuild missing residues, add hydrogens for your pH, put the protein in water, relax it, and run a short test simulation.
4 Look at the result
Simulation-ready files and a first trajectory, on your own computer. We go through them with you.
- 5 minAbout five minutes of computer time on a laptop.
- 2 psThe test run is two picoseconds: a check rather than a result.
- 11 nodesThe pdbmdauto template. Package version 1.2.8, MIT license.
It prepares proteins: ligands, cofactors, metals and crystal waters are removed. From there it is your question: a longer run on your cluster, or a workflow of your own.
How it works
A short email, then a conversation.
1You write to us
A few lines: what you work on, and what you would like to get running.
2We talk
A short call to understand the work and to choose a first task together.
3We work through it
You use Salpa and we help, see what gets in your way, and fix it.
Salpa runs on your own computer, so your structures and results stay with you unless you choose to share them. We ask for one thing in return: tell us what worked and what did not.
Three phases of Salpa Foundry
Live since 1 Oct 2026
Phase 1Collaborate
One hard case, a workflow that has to survive, or a joint research project, on methods that stay open.
Phase 2Deliver
Designed candidates and materials, confirmed in a partner laboratory.
Write to us
Tell us what you work on.
A few lines are enough: the system you study, the method you use, and what you would like to get running. We write back.
What to write
- The system you study
- The method you use
- What you would like to get running
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