Grand Challenges
To simulate the folding of
a 300 amino acid protein in water:
folding time: 1 milisecond
Machine Speed: 1 PetaFLOP/s
(Source: IBM Blue Gene Project)
IBM’s answer: The Blue Gene Project
US$ 100 M of funding to build a
Ken Dil and Kit Lau’s protein folding model.
Scripps Research Institute