Here's a blurb with a quote from an Amber author:
Stimulus Funds Bring Supercomputer to Pittsburgh Area
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (05/05/10) Hamil, Sean D.
D.E. Shaw Research will house its new Anton supercomputer at the Pittsburgh=
Supercomputing Center beginning next fall. Anton is a massively parallel,=
512-node supercomputer that reportedly offers ground-breaking performance =
capabilities. "This computer does work that really wasn't even possible un=
til now," says Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center biomedical scientist Markus=
Dittrich. Anton features a series of algorithms that can project how all =
the thousands of parts of a protein interact. "This computer has the poten=
tial to be a great accelerator in the development of drugs, how drugs work,=
and how systems work," says Jeremy Berg, director of the National Institut=
e of General Medical Sciences, which provided a $2.7 million grant to pay f=
or Anton's use at the supercomputing center. Anton took more than 10 years=
to create at D.E. Shaw Research, a private laboratory founded by David E. =
Shaw. "It's a pretty amazing machine [and] now people would like to get th=
eir hands on a machine to see if it can do what he says," notes University =
of Utah professor Thomas Cheatham.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10125/1055589-455.stm
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