Supercomputer models virus

npc · Mar 16, 2006

http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060313/full/060313-4.html

Running on a machine at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, Urbana, the program calculated how each of the million or so atoms in the virus and a surrounding drop of salt water was interacting with almost every other atom every femtosecond, or millionth of a billionth of a second.

The team managed to model the entire virus in action for 50 billionths of a second. Such a task would take a desktop computer around 35 years, says Schulten. "This is just a first glimpse," he says. "But it looks gorgeous."
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I think this is an amazing thing to do. Now if only we had the computing power to simulate a bacterium!

Petrel · Mar 16, 2006

I've got my computer running Folding@Home. Well, I have four processors running it, actually! It's a distributed computing program that models protein folding. BaptistBoard has a folding team, the thread is here. I'm folding for a different team, but if anyone isn't already donating spare processor cycles this is a good thing to sign up for.

Nowhere near as cool as a whole virus, but you've got to start somewhere!

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