What is "anton"

'''Antón ''' is a corregimiento in Antón District, Coclé Province, Panama. It is located near the north-western shore of the Gulf of Panama. It is the seat of Antón District. It has a land area of and had a population of 9,790 as of 2010, giving it a population density of . Its population as of 1990 was 7,220; its population as of 2000 was 8,360.

Anton is a massively parallel supercomputer designed and built by D. E. Shaw Research in New York. It is a special-purpose system for molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of proteins and other biological macromolecules. An Anton machine consists of a substantial number of application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs), interconnected by a specialized high-speed, three-dimensional torus network.

Unlike earlier special-purpose systems for MD simulations, such as MDGRAPE-3 developed by RIKEN in Japan, Anton runs its computations entirely on specialized ASICs, instead of dividing the computation between specialized ASICs and general-purpose host processors.

Each Anton ASIC contains two computational subsystems. Most of the calculation of electrostatic and van der Waals forces is performed by the high-throughput interaction subsystem (HTIS). This subsystem contains 32 deeply pipelined modules running at 800 MHz arranged much like a systolic array. The remaining calculations, including the bond forces and the fast Fourier transforms (used for long-range electrostatics), are performed by the flexible subsystem. This subsystem contains four general-purpose Tensilica cores (each with cache and scratchpad memory) and eight specialized but programmable SIMD cores called geometry cores. The flexible subsystem runs at 400 MHz.

Anton's network is a 3D torus and thus each chip has 6 inter-node links with a total in+out bandwidth of 607.2 Gbit/s. An inter-node link is composed of two equal one-way links (one traveling in each direction), with each one-way link having 50.6 Gbit/s of bandwidth. Each one-way link is composed of 11 lanes, where a lane is a differential pair of wires signaling at 4.6 Gbit/s. The per-hop latency in Anton's network is 50 ns. Each ASIC is also attached to its own DRAM bank, enabling large simulations.

The performance of a 512-node Anton machine is over 17,000 nanoseconds of simulated time per day for a protein-water system consisting of 23,558 atoms. In comparison, MD codes running on general-purpose parallel computers with hundreds or thousands of processor cores achieve simulation rates of up to a few hundred nanoseconds per day on the same chemical system. The first 512-node Anton machine became operational in October 2008. The multiple petaFLOP, distributed-computing project Folding@home has achieved similar aggregate ensemble simulation timescales, comparable to the total time of a single continuous simulation on Anton, specifically achieving the 1.5-millisecond range in January 2010.

The Anton supercomputer is named after Anton van Leeuwenhoek, who is often referred to as "the father of microscopy" because he built high-precision optical instruments and used them to visualize a wide variety of organisms and cell types for the first time.

The National Institutes of Health have supported an ANTON for the biomedical research community at the Pittsburgh Computing Center, Carnegie-Mellon University.

The ANTON 2 machine with 128 nodes and substantially increased speed and problem size has been described.

Anton is a 1973 Norwegian drama film written and directed by Per Blom, starring Bjørn Erik Jessen. 15-year-old Anton Olsson (Jessen) lives in a little village in rural Norway. As his father loses his grip on reality, Anton's mother, who left home when Anton was little, returns.

Anton is a given name in many European languages. It is a variant of Anthony, which is the English form of Antonius

Anton or Antón is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Abel Antón (born 1962), Spanish long-distance runner
• Adina Anton (born 1984), Romanian long jumper
• Anton Anton (born 1949), Romanian engineer and politician
• Arsenio Martínez-Campos y Antón (1831-1900), Spanish soldier and politician who restored the Bourbon dynasty
• Christopher Anton, American singer and songwriter
• Craig Anton (born 1962), American actor and comedian
• Fred Anton (born 1934), American businessman and political figure
• Gabriel Anton (1858-1933), Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist
• Hermann Eduard Anton (1794-1872), German malacologist
• Igor Antón (born 1983), Basque road race bicyclist
• Karl Anton (1898–1979), German film director, screenwriter and producer
• Paul Anton (born 1991), Romanian footballer
• Susan Anton (born 1950), American actress and singer