Researchers Focus on Molecular Dynamics, Neuroscience and Life Science Applications

SDSC began working with semiconductor chipmaker Intel Corporation to further optimize research software to improve the parallelism, efficiency, and scalability of widely used molecular and neurological simulation technologies. The collaboration is part of the Intel Parallel Computing Centers program, which provides funding to universities, institutions, and research labs to modernize key community codes used across a wide range of disciplines to run on current industry-standard parallel architectures. Initial research focused on optimization of the PMEMD classical molecular dynamics code, part of the widely used AMBER Molecular Dynamics software, on multi-core Intel® Xeon® processors and “manycore” Intel Xeon Phi™ processors.