Anton (computer)

Anton is a massively parallel supercomputer designed and built by D. E. Shaw Research in New York, first running in 2008.

An Anton machine consists of a substantial number of application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs), interconnected by a specialized high-speed, three-dimensional torus network.

Most of the calculation of electrostatic and van der Waals forces is performed by the high-throughput interaction subsystem (HTIS).

The remaining calculations, including the bond forces and the fast Fourier transforms (used for long-range electrostatics), are performed by the flexible subsystem.

[4] The performance of a 512-node Anton machine is over 17,000 nanoseconds of simulated time per day for a protein-water system consisting of 23,558 atoms.