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Suggested Citation:"APPENDIX E THE BOARD ON LIFE SCIENCES AND THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES." National Research Council. 2010. Report of the Committee on Proposal Evaluation for Allocation of Supercomputing Time for the Study of Molecular Dynamics. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13003.
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APPENDIX E
THE BOARD ON LIFE SCIENCES AND THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES

BOARD ON LIFE SCIENCES, NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL

KEITH YAMAMOTO (Chair), University of California, San Francisco, CA

ANN M. ARVIN, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA

BONNIE L. BASSLER, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

VICKI L. CHANDLER, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Palo Alto, CA

SEAN EDDY, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Janelia Farm Research Campus, Ashburn, VA

MARK D. FITZSIMMONS, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Chicago, IL

DAVID R. FRANZ, Midwest Research Institute, Frederick, MD

LOUIS J. GROSS, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN

JO HANDELSMAN, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

CATO T. LAURENCIN, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, CT

JONATHAN D. MORENO, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

ROBERT M. NEREM, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA

CAMILLE PARMESAN, University of Texas, Austin, TX

MURIEL E. POSTON, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY

ALISON G. POWER, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

BRUCE W. STILLMAN, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY

CYNTHIA WOLBERGER, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD

MARY WOOLLEY, Research!America, Alexandria, VA

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FRANCES E. SHARPLES, Director

JO L. HUSBANDS, Scholar/Senior Project Director

KATHERINE BOWMAN, Senior Program Officer

MARILEE K. SHELTON-DAVENPORT, Senior Program Officer

INDIA HOOK-BARNARD, Program Officer

ANNA FARRAR, Financial Associate

CARL-GUSTAV ANDERSON, Senior Program Assistant

AMANDA L. MAZZAWI, Senior Program Assistant

SAYYEDA AYESHA AHMED, Program Assistant

Suggested Citation:"APPENDIX E THE BOARD ON LIFE SCIENCES AND THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES." National Research Council. 2010. Report of the Committee on Proposal Evaluation for Allocation of Supercomputing Time for the Study of Molecular Dynamics. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13003.
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Advisers to the Nation on Science, Engineering, and Medicine


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The National Research Council was organized by the National Academy of Sciences in 1916 to associate the broad community of science and technology with the Academy’s purposes of furthering knowledge and advising the federal government. Functioning in accordance with general policies determined by the Academy, the Council has become the principal operating agency of both the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering in providing services to the government, the public, and the scientific and engineering communities. The Council is administered jointly by both Academies and the Institute of Medicine. Dr. Ralph J. Cicerone and Dr. Charles M. Vest are chair and vice chair, respectively, of the National Research Council.


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Suggested Citation:"APPENDIX E THE BOARD ON LIFE SCIENCES AND THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES." National Research Council. 2010. Report of the Committee on Proposal Evaluation for Allocation of Supercomputing Time for the Study of Molecular Dynamics. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13003.
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Suggested Citation:"APPENDIX E THE BOARD ON LIFE SCIENCES AND THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES." National Research Council. 2010. Report of the Committee on Proposal Evaluation for Allocation of Supercomputing Time for the Study of Molecular Dynamics. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13003.
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This letter details the work and transmits the final report of the Committee on Proposal Evaluation for Allocation of Supercomputing Time for the Study of Molecular Dynamics. The committee evaluated submissions in response to a Request for Proposals (RFP) for Biomolecular Simulation Time on Anton, a specialized supercomputer designed and constructed by D.E. Shaw Research that allows for dramatically accelerated molecular dynamics simulations. D.E. Shaw is making time on a 512 node Anton machine available to the non-commercial research community without cost.

The goal of the RFP for Biomolecular Simulation Time on Anton is to facilitate breakthrough science in the study of biomolecular systems by providing access to a dedicated, massively parallel supercomputer that allows significantly faster simulations of biomolecular systems using periodic boundary conditions and explicit solvent models. Anton's capabilities allow questions to be addressed on multi-microsecond simulation timescales, so the program seeks to support projects addressing important and potentially high impact questions that would be most advanced by receiving time on this specialized machine.

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