# desmond

## Summary

+ **Module Name:** desmond
+ **Support Level:** Secondary Support
+ **Software Access Level:** Open Access
+ **Home Page:** [https://www.deshawresearch.com/resources_desmond.html](https://www.deshawresearch.com/resources_desmond.html)

## Software Description

Desmond is a software package developed at D. E. Shaw research to
perform high-speed molecular dynamics simulations of biological systems
on conventional commodity clusters. The code uses novel parallel
algorithms and numerical techniques to achieve high performance and
accuracy on platforms containing a large number of processors, but may
also be executed on a single computer.
## General Linux

To run this software
[interactively](https://www.msi.umn.edu/remote-access) in a Linux
environment run the commands:

    module load desmond
    maestro

Input can be prepared and jobs launched from Maestro. Note: do not load
the schrodinger module; if you load that one, the desmond module will
not work. If you load the schrodinger module in your .bashrc file, you
will need to unload the module first:

    module unload schrodinger

Additional Information Help and tutorials are available by selecting the
\"Help\" menu within Maestro.