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First all-atom structure of an HIV virus capsid in its tubular form
This computer-generated image of the first all-atom structure of an HIV virus capsid in its tubular form was created using the U.S. National Science Foundation-supported Blue Waters supercomputer at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications.
[Blue Waters is supported by NSF grants ACI-0725070 and ACI-1238993.] (Date image taken: March 2012; date originally posted to NSF Multimedia Gallery: Dec. 26, 2017)
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In 2012, Klaus Schulten and his team at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign were among six teams of researchers selected to start using the first phase of the Blue Waters sustained petascale supercomputer to study some of the most vexing problems in science and engineering, from climate change to the HIV infection. It's the first use of Blue Waters, which is on its way to becoming one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world.
Blue Waters is supported by NSF's Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure, along with the University of Illinois' National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA).
Through a competitive process, NSF and NCSA awarded more than two dozen research teams petascale computing resource allocations, or time on Blue Waters. From among these, a smaller group of six teams were selected to use the early science system before the full Blue Waters system is deployed later this year.
Learn more about this research in the NSF News From the Field story NSF's most powerful computing resource has opened its doors to 6 science teams.
Credit: Courtesy of Klaus Schulten, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group/Beckman Institute; Angela Gronenborn and Peijun Zhang, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Center for HIV Protein Interactions/Department of Structural Biology
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