Scalable I/O of large-scale molecular dynamics simulations: A data-compression algorithm

Computer Physics Communications

Volumn 131, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 78-85

  Omeltchenko, Andrey ^a   Campbell, Timothy J ^a   Kalia, Rajiv K ^a   Liu, Xinlian ^a   Nakano, Aiichiro ^a   Vashishta, Priya ^a  

^a Louisiana State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA COMPRESSION; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

ATOMIC COORDINATES; OCTREE INDEXING;

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

EID: 0034276332     PISSN: 00104655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-4655(00)00083-7     Document Type: Article

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