NVIDIA's Tesla Cards Simulate the Flu

You might have already read about how the Institute of Process Engineering of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS-IPE) were able to use molecular-dynamics simulations to simulate the whole H1N1 influenza virus.

If you haven't, you might want to stop by here and read about it, since it was the first computer simulation of a whole H1N1 influenza virus at the atomic level.

As it happened, NVIDIA's Tesla GPU compute accelerators played a big part in the success of this endeavor, as part of the Mole-8.5 GPU supercomputer.

The GPUs, through parallel processing, gave the supercomputer the speed it needed to capture the reactions that happen in bacteria and viruses.

With Tesla to allow for the simulating those billions of particles, as well as the right environmental conditions, researchers can really start to understand the H1N1 and other agents too.