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Aneesur Rahman—Father of molecular dynamics
Argonne physicist Aneesur Rahman, known worldwide as the “father of
molecular dynamics,” pioneered the application of computer science
to physical systems.
In 1960, Rahman successfully modeled the behavior of a cluster of
864 argon atoms on a computer that could perform only 150,000 calculations
per second.
While Argonne's new IBM Blue Gene ® /P supercomputer runs nearly
3 million times faster than Rahman's CDC 3600, today's scientists still
base the code for their models on Rahman's algorithms.
Since 1993, the American
Physical Society has annually awarded the
Aneesur
Rahman Prize for outstanding achievement in computational physics
research.
For more information, please contact Dave Baurac (630/252-5584
or media@anl.gov) at Argonne.
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