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.
Satellite Tobacco Mosaic Virus |
Bacterial Flagellum |
Larger Machines
More powerful parallel supercomputers with larger processor counts are becoming available.
Blue Gene/L at LLNL, 131,072 processors |
Affordable Clusters
Commodity supercomputing is attainable locally for even modest experimental labs.
TCBG Linux Clusters |
Cluster Building Workshop |
