Computational chemistry on Fujitsu vector-parallel processors: Hardware and programming environment

Parallel Computing

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 869-886

  Nobes, Ross H ^a   Rendell, Alistair P ^b   Nieplocha, Jarek ^c  

^a Stockley Pk   (United Kingdom)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; RESPONSE TIME (COMPUTER SYSTEMS); SUPERCOMPUTERS; VECTORS;

COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY; VECTOR-PARALLEL SUPERCOMPUTERS;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0033691150     PISSN: 01678191     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8191(00)00018-1     Document Type: Article

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