Why NAMD?
NAMD development is driven by major trends in computing and structural biology.
Larger Molecules
The structures of increasingly larger biomolecular aggregates are being determined.
HIV Virus Capsid Tubular Form |
Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease Virus |
Larger Machines
More powerful parallel supercomputers with larger processor counts are becoming available.
Blue Waters at NCSA, 773,632 CPU cores and 3072 GPUs |
Affordable Computing
Commodity supercomputing is attainable locally for even modest experimental labs.
Workstation With GPU Accelerators |
Desktop MDFF |
