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.
![]() HIV Virus Capsid Tubular Form |
![]() Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease Virus |
Larger Machines
More powerful parallel supercomputers with larger processor counts are becoming available.
![]() Blue Waters at NCSA, 773,632 CPU cores and 3072 GPUs |
Affordable Computing
Commodity supercomputing is attainable locally for even modest experimental labs.
![]() Workstation With GPU Accelerators |
![]() Desktop MDFF |