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How Much Time Is Required For 1 Nanosecond Md Simulation.

I cannot access any good workstation right now. What amount of time is expected for 1 nanosecond MD simlulation of a 100 Amino acid protein molecule on My desktop?
(8 GBs of RAM, 4 Giga Hz 8 core processor ) using well known free tool like gromacs.

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It should not take more than a few hours if your compile gromacs.

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It depends on your system.. what solvent? what forcefield? what cutoffs? what treatment of electrostatics?

1 ns can be usually reached under 1 day with a good multicore machine and a nicely setup system.

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written by João Rodrigues João Rodrigues

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