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``Since IBM's announcement last year that it would spend $100 million to build a supercomputer called Blue Gene for protein folding research, it has begun collaborating with scientists at Indiana University, Columbia University, and the University of Pennsylvania on some of the mathematical techniques and software needed for the system.
``The company has also decided to use a cellular architecture for the machine, where it will use simple pieces and replicate them on a large scale. Protein folding research requires advances in computational power and molecular dynamics techniques - the mathematical method for calculating the movement of atoms in the formation of proteins, said Joe Jasinski, IBM's newly appointed senior manager of Blue Gene and the computational biology center.
```The first problem that we are attacking with Blue Gene is to understand at the atomic level the detailed dynamics, the motions involved in protein folding,' Jasinski said. `That's a very computationally intensive problem which requires at least a petaflop computer and probably something bigger.'
``Most of the system software as well as the routines that will drive the applications are being developed by IBM's computational biology group, which was formed in 1992 and now numbers about 40 scientists and engineers.''
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