Nuclear Pore Simulation (IMAGE)

University of Texas at Austin, Texas Advanced Computing Center

Nuclear Pore Simulation

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Visualization of the nuclear pore complex in a cell, which serves as a passageway into and out of the nucleus. The researchers completed a simulation of the 150 million atom system using up to 4,000 compute nodes, or half of the entire Frontera supercomputer.

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Aksimentiev Group, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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