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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Apr 30.
Published in final edited form as: J Comput Chem. 2010 Apr 30;31(6):1268–1272. doi: 10.1002/jcc.21413

Table 2.

Performance of simulating proteins in explicit solvent. All simulations were 100 ps (50,000 time steps) long. See the text for descriptions of the systems.

Protein Total Atoms Protein Atoms Computation Time (sec) ns/day
villin 8867 582 216 40
lambda 16437 1254 418 21
α-spectrin 73886 5078 1733 5.0
peptide in membrane 77373 834 (+26000 lipid atoms) 2145 4.0