Demonstrating the Scalability of a Molecular Dynamics Application on a Petaflops Computer

International Journal of Parallel Programming

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 317-351

  Almasi, George S ^a   Caşcaval, Câlin ^a   Castaños, José G ^a   Denneau, Monty ^a   Donath, Wilm ^a   Eleftheriou, Maria ^a   Giampapa, Mark ^a   Ho, Howard ^a   Lieber, Derek ^a   Moreira, José E ^a   Newns, Dennis ^a   Snir, Marc ^a   Warren Jr , Henry S ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cellular architecture; Massively parallel computing; Molecular dynamics; Performance evaluation

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR ARCHITECTURE; CELLULAR MACHINES; HIGH SPEED PROCESSORS; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION;

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); CODES (STANDARDS); COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 11144357668     PISSN: 08857458     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1019856029918     Document Type: Conference Paper

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