Dr. Peter Kollman's group at UCSF and other members of the computational structural biology research community resulted in the longest-ever simulation of the protein folding process using parallelized software. This is a snapshot from simulations of a protein called the villin headpiece subdomain. It is being successfully applied to the study of magnetism in realistic materials, characterized by unit cells containing hundreds and even thousands of atoms. This was the world's first fully fledged scientific computation to be clocked in excess of one trillion operations per second, and won the team the prestigious Gordon Bell Prize for 1998. The prize honors the year's best achievement in high performance computing.
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