NAMD Example

NAMD is a parallel molecular dynamics code designed for high-performance simulation of large biomolecular systems. Based on Charm++ parallel objects, NAMD scales to hundreds of cores for typical simulations and beyond 200,000 cores for the largest simulations. NAMD uses the popular molecular graphics program VMD for simulation setup and trajectory analysis, but is also file-compatible with AMBER, CHARMM, and X-PLOR.

This is a simple example of a molecular dynamics simulation on Rescale.

Simulation CodeNAMD v2.11 tcp
Analysis TypeMolecular dynamics
DescriptionMolecular dynamics (MD) simulations to compute atomic trajectories by solving empirical force field equations that approximate the actual atomic force in biopolymer systems.
Suggested HardwareTitanium / 1 cores
Command
namd2 bpti_namd_script
Estimated Run Time2 minutes