Namd

NAMD ( NA noscale Molecular D ynamics) is a free molecular dynamics program written using the Charm ++ parallel programming model, which has high parallelization efficiency and is often used to simulate large systems (millions of atoms). The program was created jointly by the Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group (TCB) and the Parallel Programming Laboratory (PPL) from the University of Illinois at Urbana and Champaign .

The program was announced in 1995 by Nelson et al. ^[2] as a parallel program for molecular dynamics, including interactive simulations associated with the VMD imaging program. The program supports multiprocessing , the ability to use graphic processors for calculations ( CUDA technology).