D. E. Shaw Research

Anton 2 is the second generation of a family of massively parallel special-purpose supercomputers for molecular dynamics simulations. The embedded software that runs on the Anton machines is co-designed with the underlying hardware, allowing the code to exploit unique capabilities of the hardware, and the hardware to make careful trade-offs for maximum performance, while preserving flexibility and programmability. This closely coupled co-design is a major reason for Anton's large performance improvement—as much as two orders of magnitude—over commodity clusters and general-purpose supercomputers