Supercomputer Sets Protein-Folding Record 63
Nicros writes with this snippet from Nature News:
"A specially designed supercomputer named Anton has simulated changes in a protein's three-dimensional structure over a period of a millisecond — a time-scale more than a hundred-fold greater than the previous record. ... The simulations revealed how the proteins changed as they folded, unfolded and folded again. 'The agreement with experimental data is amazing,' says Chandra Verma, a computational structural biologist at the Bioinformatics Institute of the Agency for Science, Technology and Research in Singapore. Simulating the basic pancreatic trypsin inhibitor over the course of a millisecond took Anton about 100 days — roughly as long as computers spent toiling over previous simulations that only spanned 10 microseconds."
Re:Even though it was published in Nature News... (Score:2, Funny)
It wasn't written for a computer nerd demographic so the exact specs weren't really relevant.
You are writing for a nerd demographic though so you should have said "It wasn't written for a computer nerd demographic so it missed out all the most important information."
Processing power (Score:3, Funny)
The performance of a 512-node Anton machine is over 17,000 nanoseconds of simulated time per day for a protein-water system consisting of 23,558 atoms
So... how many libraries of congress per second??