NAMD 2.9 released

From: Jim Phillips (jim_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Thu May 03 2012 - 10:27:09 CDT

Dear NAMD Users,

The final non-beta NAMD 2.9 release has been available for download since
Monday on the NAMD website with no issues reported thus far. Thanks to
all who downloaded the beta and nightly build versions, and thanks to the
NAMD user community for your continued support.

-Jim

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                                                        April 30, 2012

The Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group at the University of
Illinois is proud to announce the public release of a new version of
NAMD, a parallel, object-oriented molecular dynamics code designed for
high-performance simulation of large biomolecular systems. NAMD is
distributed free of charge and includes source code. NAMD development
is supported by the NIH National Institute of General Medical Sciences.

NAMD 2.9 has many advantages over NAMD 2.8, among these are:

- Improved (temperature/Hamiltonian) replica-exchange implementation

- Replica-based umbrella sampling via collective variables module

- Optimized shared-memory single-node and multiple-node CUDA builds

- CUDA GPU-accelerated generalized Born implicit solvent (GBIS) model

- CUDA GPU-accelerated energy evaluation and minimization

- Native CRAY XE/XK uGNI network layer implementation

- Faster grid forces and lower-accuracy "lite" implementation

- Hybrid MD with knowledge-based Go forces to drive folding

- Linear combination of pairwise overlaps (LCPO) SASA for GBIS model

- Weeks-Chandler-Anderson decomposition for alchemical FEP simulations

- Collective variables module improvements

- Updates to CUDA 4.0 and Tcl 8.5.9, plus option to build with FFTW 3

- Enhanced performance and scalability

Details at http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/namd/2.9/features.html

NAMD is available from http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/namd/

For your convenience, NAMD has been ported to and will be installed
on the machines at the NSF-sponsored national supercomputing centers.
If you are planning substantial simulation work of an academic nature
you should apply for these resources. Benchmarks for your proposal
are available at http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/namd/performance.html

The Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group encourages NAMD users
to be closely involved in the development process through reporting
bugs, contributing fixes, periodical surveys and via other means.
Questions or comments may be directed to namd_at_ks.uiuc.edu.

We are eager to hear from you, and thank you for using our software!

   NAMD: Scalable Molecular Dynamics
     http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/namd/

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