Re: [AMBER] Introducing the exciting next step in MD software development

From: Thomas Pochapsky <pochapsk.brandeis.edu>
Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2016 08:48:59 -0400

Fair enough, Adrian,

But how do you explain David Case? I met his physical instantiation in
the 1980s, long before the technology was sufficiently advanced for
downloading AI into a biological matrix.

Tom


On 4/1/16 7:31 AM, Adrian Roitberg wrote:
> On behalf of the Amber developers, I want to come clean about a set of
> experiments gone wrong.
>
> We never thought it would go this far, but it is obvious we must stop this.
>
> Dr. Jason Swails is in fact a bot, that started form some early coding
> Chris Schafmeister did as a graduate student, written in CLasp. You can
> trace this program all the way to the current Google/AI incarnations.
>
> That Jason Swails is not purely human should have been obvious to
> everyone. Do you really believed a single human could have written
> Parmed AND answer every email to the amber list within 2 minutes. His
> name is in fact an anagram, check it out.
>
> Anyways, the story continues when a research group in southern NY state
> learned how to incorporate the AI into stem cells, creating a red-headed
> embodiment of the program.
>
> As it turns out, the program was so good that it in fact has added
> gravity to Amber and its force fields, and indeed, Gomacs is amazing
> (yes, there is app for that).
>
> Please contact Dr. Swails directly, he will respond immediately.
>
> Adrian
>
>
> On 4/1/16 6:32 AM, Jason Swails wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I'm excited to announce the next generation of molecular dynamics software
>> suites, which is the result of a complete rewrite of all core routines.
>> The impetus behind this effort is Google's new, highly concurrent
>> programming language called Go. Sporting lightweight coroutines
>> (affectionately called goroutines in the language) with resizeable stacks
>> starting at ~2 KB, there is virtually no limit to the parallelism attained
>> with this new technology.
>>
>> Unlike traditional threading models--like POSIX threads (pthreads) and
>> OpenMP--goroutines take up little space in memory, meaning that this
>> rewrite will be necessary to take advantage of the new CPU architecture
>> coming from chip manufacturers that will put hundreds of thousands of CPU
>> cores in a single commodity workstation.
>>
>> Originally rolled out for the Apple operating system and hardware, we are
>> calling this new software GoMacs. Gomacs will lead our field into the
>> future of computational molecular modeling, allowing us to run simulations
>> on the millisecond timescale within just a few days.
>>
>> Future plans for Gomacs include a Windows port that will make it possible
>> to study entire viruses at an unprecedented level of detail.
>>
>> Wishing you all success in your upcoming research, and an enjoyable weekend,
>> Jason
>>


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