Getting a Close-Up View
Learn more about the chemistry department’s new computing device.
04/17/2019 1:05 AM
Molecules, the smallest units of a chemical compound, are far too small to visualize unaided. Â鶹ÊÓƵ¹ÙÍø students are gaining molecular insights with the chemistry department’s new graphical processing unit compute node. Multiple users can access the device, which was purchased through the Mund-Lagowski Endowment for Chemistry and Biochemistry. Udo Schnupf, assistant professor of chemistry, said, “If you can watch (a molecule), then you can see all a molecule does, how it rearranges, how it interacts with other molecules.”