From owner-chemistry@ccl.net Fri Jun 3 14:31:01 2016 From: "Mark Berger mberger-,-nvidia.com" To: CCL Subject: CCL: NAMD Developers Present :-: Webinar on June 9 at 9 am PDT Message-Id: <-52236-160603142700-31978-vcTZEDKhWLqd55fr9YW1UQ:-:server.ccl.net> X-Original-From: "Mark Berger" Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2016 14:26:59 -0400 Sent to CCL by: "Mark Berger" [mberger/./nvidia.com] James Phillips and Antti-Pekka Hynninen, two key NAMD developers, will be presenting on NAMD 2.11 and future NAMD developments on June 9 at 9 am PDT or 12 noon EDT. In addition, NVIDIA has recently launched a program to enable NAMD end users and IT managers, supporting users to easily install GPU accelerated applications and run jobs on the latest revision. Nikolai Sakharnykh will highlight resources available to get you started on GPU-accelerated NAMD. See below for more background. Click here to Register: http://info.nvidianews.com/NAMD-Webinar- RegistrationPage.html Presenters are: James Phillips Senior Research Programmer, University of Illinois James Phillips is a senior research programmer in the Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Since 1999, James has been the lead developer of the highly scalable parallel molecular dynamics program NAMD, for which he received a Gordon Bell Award in 2002. Antti-Pekka Hynninen Computational Scientist, Oak Ridge National Library Antti-Pekka is a computational scientist in biophysics at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), where he focuses on the software development and INCITE user support of NAMD biomolecular modeling application. Nikolay Sakharnykh Developer Technology Engineer, NVIDIA Nikolay Sakharnykh is a senior developer technology engineer at NVIDIA, where he works on accelerating applications on GPUs. He has experience in scientific research and software development focusing on computational techniques related to physics, chemistry, and biology. The latest version, NAMD 2.11, provides up to 7x* speedup on GPUs over CPU-only systems and up to 2x performance over NAMD 2.10. To learn more visit the GPU Accelerated Apps page for NAMD: https://www.nvidia.com/object/gpu-accelerated-applications-namd.html