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Supercomputer Performs Simulation of Virus

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the tomatoes-can-sleep-better-at-night dept.

moller writes to tell us Red Herring is reporting that researchers from the University of California at Irvine and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have announced that they created a computer simulation of a virus. From the article: "Using one of the world's fastest computers at the U.S. National Center for Supercomputing Applications, located at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the researchers ran a computer program devised to reverse engineer the dynamics of all atoms making up the virus particle and a tiny drop of water containing it." Nature also has an interesting write up on the research surrounding this project.

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  1. More/better information... by tskirvin · · Score: 5, Informative

    1. The full research page for this project is here. This is a lot better than the stuff linked through Nature and such.

    2. The image was actually generated by our group, and specifically Anton Arkhipov, using our software package VMD. NCSA didn't have anything to do with it.

  2. Re:You can run this yourself (theoretically) by tskirvin · · Score: 5, Informative

    Also of note: we've done a series of cluster-building workshops specifically focusing on the software and hardware required to run these kinds of simulations. Copies of the presentations and tutorials are linked off of that page.

    And if you want to see how we designed our clusters, I've got full specifications up here.