With SC11 on the horizon, you can expect many more such announcements, but today China and NVidia are excited about the use of 2,200 Nvidia Tesla cards to run the first ever computer simulation of a complete H1N1 flu virus at atomic levels.
The CAS-IPE researchers made the simulation breakthrough by developing a molecular dynamics simulation application that takes advantage of GPU acceleration2. It was run on the Mole-8.5 GPU supercomputer, which is comprised of 288 server nodes. The system was able to simulate 770 picoseconds per day with an integration time step of 1 femtosecond for 300 million atoms or radicals1.
