NAMD

NAMD

Developer(s)	Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group (TCB) and the Parallel Programming Laboratory (PPL)
Stable release	2.7 / October 2010
Operating system	Cross-platform
Available in	C++
License	University of Illinois
Website	ks.uiuc.edu/Research/namd

NAMD (Not (just) Another Molecular Dynamics program)^[1] is a free-of-charge molecular dynamics simulation package written using the Charm++ parallel programming model, noted for its parallel efficiency and often used to simulate large systems (millions of atoms).^[2] It has been developed by the joint collaboration of the Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group (TCB) and the Parallel Programming Laboratory (PPL) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

It was introduced in 1995 by Nelson et al. as a parallel molecular dynamics code enabling interactive simulation by linking to the visualization code VMD. NAMD has since matured, adding many features and scaling to thousands of processors. The latest stable version (as of May 2011) is 2.8.

See also

• List of software for molecular mechanics modeling
• VMD
• Charm++

References

1. ^ "Flexibility and Interoperability in a Parallel Molecular Dynamics Code" (postscript). http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~brunner/Papers/SIAMWS98.ps. 
2. ^ "NAMD A Parallel Object-Oriented Molecular Dynamics Program" (pdf). http://bionum.cs.purdue.edu/NHGD96.pdf. 

External links

• NAMD page at the TCB website
• NAMD page at the PPL website
• NAMD on GPUs