Re: NAMD 2.11b1 released

From: Jeff Comer (jeffcomer_at_gmail.com)
Date: Tue Nov 10 2015 - 13:18:06 CST

Dear Jim,

I want to say thanks! The improved CUDA performance is already making
my life easier.

Regards,
Jeff

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Jeffrey Comer, PhD
Assistant Professor
Institute of Computational Comparative Medicine
Nanotechnology Innovation Center of Kansas State
Kansas State University
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On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 9:39 AM, Jim Phillips <jim_at_ks.uiuc.edu> wrote:
> Dear NAMD users,
>
> NAMD 2.11b1 is available for download (since last night), with many new
> features noted below. This is a beta release, so please test your
> simulations over the next few weeks and let us know of any issues. I am
> hoping for a short beta cycle with limited new code (and some new
> documentation) added before the final 2.11 release.
>
> Thank you all for your efforts and support.
>
> Jim
>
>
> +--------------------------------------------------------------------+
> | |
> | NAMD 2.11b1 Release Announcement |
> | |
> +--------------------------------------------------------------------+
>
> November 10, 2015
>
> 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 2.11 has many advantages over NAMD 2.10, among these are:
>
> - GPU-accelerated simulations up to twice as fast as NAMD 2.10
>
> - Enhanced Tcl scripting of collective variables and "cv" command
>
> - Collective variables module improvements including to histogram bias
>
> - TclForces query total net forces for atom groups
>
> - Replica-exchange multiplexing (fewer partitions than replicas)
>
> - Tcl scripting multiple in-memory checkpoints
>
> - Improved Tcl scripting multi-copy interface documentation
>
> - Tcl scripting asynchronous multi-copy remote in-memory checkpoints
>
> - Tcl scripting asynchronous multi-copy remote trajectory output
>
> - Tcl scripting asynchronous multi-copy remote script evaluation
>
> - Tcl scripting asynchronous multi-copy central work queue support
>
> - Tcl scripting asynchronous multi-copy workflow-style programming
>
> - Improved minimization for Drude force field and rigid bonds
>
> - Improved long-range LJ correction with VDW force switching
>
> - Improved alchemical calculations with VDW force switching
>
> - Pressure calculation with fixed atoms on GPU works as on CPU
>
> - Improved scaling for GPU-accelerated particle-mesh Ewald calculation
>
> - Improved scaling for GPU-accelerated simulations
>
> - Improved scaling for multi-threaded "smp" builds
>
> - Prevent running smp builds with one thread per process
>
> - Support trajectory files larger than 2GB on Windows
>
> - Improved Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor support
>
> - Update to Charm++ 6.7.0 with improved multi-copy support
>
> - Ignore ioformat statement in CHARMM topology and parameter files
>
> - Psfgen improvements including long resids and insertion codes
>
> - Psfgen package available in NAMD Tcl interpreter
>
>
> Details at http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/namd/2.11/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!
>

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