Scalable molecular-dynamics algorithm suite for materials simulations: Design-space diagram on 1024 Cray T3E processors

Future Generation Computer Systems

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 279-291

  Shimojo, Fuyuki ^a   Campbell, Timothy J ^a   Kalia, Rajiv K ^a   Nakano, Aiichiro ^a   Vashishta, Priya ^a   Ogata, Shuji ^b   Tsuruta, Kenji ^c  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

TIGHT-BINDING METHOD; VARIABLE CHARGE MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0034318802     PISSN: 0167739X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-739X(00)00087-X     Document Type: Article

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