Anton (Computer)
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Anton (Computer)
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#2who else thought about son of Anton, from Silicon Valley show ?
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#3To make this more timely, DE Shaw Research has been posting COVID-19 related simulations done on their Antons: http://www.deshawresearch.com/resources_sarscov2.html
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#4who else thought about son of Anton, from Silicon Valley show ?
Yeah, I expected this to be a joke
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#5who else thought about son of Anton, from Silicon Valley show ?
I would say it's likely that the SV Anton was named after this.
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#6There is an Anton 2 (no wikipedia article unfortunately)-
https://insidehpc.com/2016/02/anton-2-supercomputer-at-psc-w...
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#7I have a lot of respect for david shaw. He quit managing his hedge fund day to day because he said something along the lines of finance make me stupid or something and went back to doing something useful. If only more of our elites realized this (and cared to do something useful with themselves)
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#8I have a lot of respect for david shaw. He quit managing his hedge fund day to day because he said something along the lines of finance make me stupid or something and went back to doing something useful. If only more of our elites realized this (and cared to do something useful with themselves)
Me as well. It does seem that the whole point of being a billionaire is to do whatever you want. I can't imagine why so many seem to stick to managing their creations, which after a while can't be much fun.
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#9“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.[5] In comparison, MD codes running on general-purpose parallel computers with hundreds or thousands of processor cores achieve simulation rates of up to a few hundred nanoseconds per day on the same chemical system.”
17,000 ns of simulation per day sounds crazy small but I wonder how that compares to the timescale of molecular interactions. How helpful have Antons been to pharma research etc?
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#10who else thought about son of Anton, from Silicon Valley show ?
I would say it's likely that the SV Anton was named after this.
I’ve always assumed it was a reference to Anton LaVey (seemed appropriate for Gilfoyle to name his server after the founder of the church of satan). It would be interesting to know which theory is correct.