powers of four

Today NVIDIA continues that strategy in the life sciences vertical with the announcement of the Bio Workbench. With the Workbench NVIDIA went out and rounded up 11 popular life sciences applications, made sure they could take advantage of NVIDIA’s GPUs with CUDA, and launched a community site around them. According to that site the codes that are already done include names you’ll probably recognize — AMBER, GROMACS, HOOMD, LAMMPS, NAMD, TeraChem, VMD — with others such as GROMOS, GPU-HMMER, and CUDA-SmithWaterman “coming soon.”