RE: NAMD - Pronunciation?

From: JC Gumbart (gumbart_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Fri Feb 02 2007 - 23:24:27 CST

Yes, although it used to stand for "Not Another Molecular Dynamics program".

 

 

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From: owner-namd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu [mailto:owner-namd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu] On Behalf
Of Neelanjana Sengupta
Sent: Friday, February 02, 2007 8:42 PM
To: namd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu
Subject: Re: namd-l: NAMD - Pronunciation?

 

And NAMD stands for "NAnoscale Molecular Dynamics", right? I have often come
across people wondering what the acronym stands for!

Regards,
Neelanjana

On 2/2/07, JC Gumbart <gumbart_at_ks.uiuc.edu> wrote:

Good question! I think I speak for everyone in the group: we go with
LAMB DEE.

...I mean NAM-D.

On Feb 2, 2007, at 7:57 PM, Shirley Hui wrote:

> I'm sure this is a silly question but how do you pronounce NAMD?
>
> is it NAM - D (as in rhymes with LAMB DEE)
> or
> is it N-A-M-D (as in EN AE EM DEE)
> or
> something else?
>
> thanks
> shirley

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