Re:No, this is scientific showboating. (Score 1)

Well, you might have a look at the MD literature over the last few years -- the system sizes have been steadily increasing, while at the same time making predictions and being compared with quantitative experimental data. At the same time the list of known issues with MD has been steadily shrinking (people in the field do know and acknowledge that there are still some areas where the simulations fail, but a lot of the problems have already been worked out). The simulation being reported here isn't even the biggest MD run that has ever been done; that title would belong to Sanbonmatsu's ribosome work or Namba & Kitao's flagellar filament simulations. So this certainly doesn't seem like it is coming out of nowhere, as you might be concerned -- there have been a lot of other big simulations done recently in the 100,000 atom and up range.