Sciencemadness Discussion Board

Anton, a special-purpose machine for molecular dynamics simulation

Nixie - 13-9-2008 at 04:43

Anyone seen this? I was reading about it in the July Communications of the ACM.
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=1364782.1364802
They claim millisecond-scale MD simulation with many tens of thousands of atoms doable in two months, which is a couple orders of magnitude improvement over a supercomputer (assuming timesteps on the order of femtoseconds).

[Edited on 13-9-2008 by Nixie]