Parallelizing a DNA simulation code for the Cray MTA-2

Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Bioinformatics Conference, CSB 2002

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 291-302

  Bokhari, S H ^a   Glaser, M A ^b   Jordan, H F ^c   Lansac, Y ^b   Sauer, J R ^d   Van Zeghbroeck, B ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY   (Pakistan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

^d Eagle Research and Development   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOINFORMATICS; C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); CODES (SYMBOLS); DNA; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NANOPORES; PARALLEL PROGRAMMING; SUPERCOMPUTERS;

BUILDING BLOCKES; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTOR (FETS); INTER PROCESSOR COMMUNICATION; MULTITHREADED ARCHITECTURE; PARALLEL SUPERCOMPUTER; PARALLELIZING; SIMULATION CODE; VLSI TECHNOLOGY;

GENE ENCODING;

DNA;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONFORMATION; DIFFUSION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC PROCEDURES; METHODOLOGY; MOTION; POROSITY; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

ALGORITHMS; BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; COMPUTING METHODOLOGIES; DIFFUSION; DNA; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOTION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; POROSITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOFTWARE; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 0042237289     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CSB.2002.1039351     Document Type: Conference Paper

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