Hi,
Cool! I have not heard back from Scott, so maybe Sanibel is a no go
for him. My impression from Scott was he was interesting in helping,
so we should definitely take him up on this. See everyone in a few
weeks. Kennie
On 6 Feb 2009, at 9:24 PM, Ross Walker wrote:
> Hi Kennie,
>
> I have been talking with the NVIDIA guys for a while. Specifically to
> Massimiliano Fatica and Scott LaGrand. I didn't realize Scott used
> to work
> for you. I have got them to request a development license for AMBER
> and they
> have checked out the AMBER 11 tree and have been looking at the code
> for a
> few weeks.
>
> Mark Williamson is going to the OpenMM workshop at Stanford and I have
> arranged for him to meet up with Scott there. Additionally
> Massimiliano and
> Scott are going to be coming to SDSC for 2 days Mar 31 / Apr 1st to
> work
> with Mark and I and give us a chance to go over the code with them
> and for
> them to give us a crash course in CUDA etc. We already have several
> Tesla
> cards that they donated to try things out on but to date I don't
> think any
> plans are actually in motion except to provide them with the code
> and to
> provisionally start up conversations. I was considering inviting
> them to the
> AMBER meeting as well but thought the time frame might be a little
> tight. We
> should perhaps discuss things at the AMBER meeting though and come
> up with a
> consistent plan of how we would like to do things. If they are
> willing to do
> a lot of the work that is great and I think we should really try to
> take
> advantage of that.
>
> All the best
> Ross
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: amber-developers-bounces.ambermd.org [mailto:amber-developers-
>> bounces.ambermd.org] On Behalf Of Ken Merz
>> Sent: Friday, February 06, 2009 1:41 PM
>> To: AMBER Developers Mailing List
>> Subject: Re: [AMBER-Developers] Stanford press release on GPUs and
>> molecular dynamics
>>
>> Hi,
>> FWIW Scott LaGrand at NVIDIA (he got his PhD with me many moons ago)
>> contacted me about porting AMBER to GPUs. I invited him to the AMBER
>> meeting to go over what he has been doing along these lines, but no
>> word yet if he will attend. Basically, I think he will or would like
>> to create a GPU based PMEMD and/or Sander. I believe he worked on
>> Pande's port as well.
>>
>> Kennie
>>
>>
>> On 6 Feb 2009, at 11:16 AM, David A. Case wrote:
>>
>>> FYI -- the openMM stuff is now being announced:
>>>
>>> http://www.hpcwire.com/offthewire/Stanford-U-Software-Speeds-up-
>> Molecular-Simulations-39145597.html
>>>
>>> ....dac
>>>
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