Achieving scalable parallel molecular dynamics using dynamic spatial domain decomposition techniques

Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 125-138

  Nyland, Lars ^a   Prins, Jan ^a   Yun, Ru Huai ^b   Hermans, Jan ^b   Kum, Hye Chung ^a   Wang, Lei ^a  

^a Brooks Computer Science Building   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive load balancing; BSP cost modeling; Molecular dynamics; Parallel algorithms; Spatial decomposition

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031574512     PISSN: 07437315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jpdc.1997.1408     Document Type: Article

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