Scalable atomistic simulation algorithms for materials research

Scientific Programming

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 263-270

  Nakano, Aiichiro ^a,b   Kalia, Rajiv K ^a,b   Vashishta, Priya ^a,b   Campbell, Timothy J ^f   Ogata, Shuji ^c   Shimojo, Fuyuki ^d   Saini, Subhash ^e  

^a University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^f NONE

Author keywords

Data compression; Density functional theory; Load balancing; Molecular dynamics; Parallel computing; Quantum mechanics; Variable charge molecular dynamics

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA COMPRESSION; MATERIALS SCIENCE; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; QUANTUM THEORY; SPACE TIME ADAPTIVE PROCESSING; VISUALIZATION;

LOAD BALANCING; SCALABLE ATOMISTIC SIMULATIONS;

PARALLEL ALGORITHMS;

EID: 0036911995     PISSN: 10589244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2002/203525     Document Type: Article

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