Performance of the 3D FFT on the 6D network torus QCDOC parallel supercomputer

Computer Physics Communications

Volumn 176, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 531-538

  Fang, Bin ^a   Deng, Yuefan ^a   Martyna, Glenn ^b  

^a USA   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Ab initio calculation; Blue Matter; FFT; Long range interaction; Molecular dynamics simulation; Parallel efficiency; Strong scalability

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

AB INITIO CALCULATION; BLUE MATTER; LONG RANGE INTERACTION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; STRONG SCALABILITY;

SUPERCOMPUTERS;

EID: 33947229391     PISSN: 00104655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cpc.2006.12.006     Document Type: Article

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