A hardware/software approach to molecular dynamics on reconfigurable computers

Proceedings - 14th Annual IEEE Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines, FCCM 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 23-32

  Scrofano, Ronald ^a   Gokhale, Maya ^b   Trouw, Frans ^b   Prasannat, Viktor K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; RECONFIGURABLE COMPUTERS; RECONFIGURABLE HARDWARE;

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA); INTERCONNECTION NETWORKS; NATURAL SCIENCES COMPUTING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

PROGRAM PROCESSORS;

EID: 33846789210     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/FCCM.2006.46     Document Type: Conference Paper

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