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

From: Adrian Roitberg <roitberg.ufl.edu>
Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2016 09:36:36 -0400

Tom

You understimate us... If we can do the AI and the cloning, you think we
cannot manage with a little time travel ?

Adrian


On 4/1/16 8:48 AM, Thomas Pochapsky wrote:
> 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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