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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.

2 of 230 comments (clear)

  1. Anti-Virus? by segedunum · · Score: 1, Redundant

    I sincerely hope they protected that computer with a reputable piece of anti-virus software like Norton or McAfee.

  2. For this, you need a supercomputer? by RSevrinsky · · Score: 0, Redundant

    All they needed to do was start with a fresh installation of Win2k and stay online for a couple of days....

    Oh, you wanted it simulated?

    Does running under VMware count?