Massively parallel implementation of a fast multipole method for distributed memory machines

Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing

Volumn 65, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 870-881

  Kurzak, Jakub ^a   Pettitt, B Montgomery ^a,b  

^a University of Houston   (United States)

^b University of Houston   (United States)

Author keywords

Molecular dynamics algorithms

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; DIFFUSION; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; TOPOLOGY;

LOAD BALANCING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS ALGORITHMS; MULTIPOLE METHOD; PARALLELIZATION;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 19944419779     PISSN: 07437315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpdc.2005.02.001     Document Type: Article

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