Physics Simulation
COMSOL is the gold standard for the accurate simulation of physics effects and one of the strongest competitors to Ansys. Where the software shines is in solving multiphysics problems that depend on several phenomena—you can simulate everything, including black holes. The modular aspect of COMSOL helps professionals customize the software to their desires, which can be run with a single module or a whole multitude of collaborating modules for more demanding tasks, as well as with two-way communication with external programs, such as CAD software.
Chemistry Simulation
NAMD is developed by the University of Illinois and helps researchers simulate the dynamic interactions between molecules and atoms. It is an established means of molecular dynamics simulation that scales from individual clusters of molecules to full-on chemical interaction in different phases. Parallel simulation modes help differentiate NAMD from its peers, allowing efficient problem solving of larger systems using the Charm++ parallel programming model as the base.
Medical Science — Genome Analysis
COVID-19 has shown the world that deadly pandemics can bring society to a standstill. Computational genomics is essential for rapid development of vaccine candidates in a race against time. In this test we're running an analysis on a set of genomes to determine which individuals in the dataset share common traits in their DNA. This is not only a compute-intensive workload, but it also uses quite a lot of memory (over 10 GB), which makes it dependent on the performance of the memory subsystem.