ChemIO: High performance parallel I/O for computational chemistry applications

International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 345-363

  Nieplocha, Jarek ^a   Foster, Ian ^b   Kendall, Rick A ^a  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMISTRY; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; INPUT OUTPUT PROGRAMS; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); PERFORMANCE;

INPUT OUTPUT LIBRARIES; INPUT OUTPUT PATTERNS;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0032163184     PISSN: 10943420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/109434209801200304     Document Type: Article

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