Preliminary investigation of advanced electrostatics in molecular dynamics on reconfigurable computers

Proceedings of the 2006 ACM/IEEE Conference on Supercomputing, SC'06

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Scrofano, Ronald ^a   Prasanna, Viktor K ^a  

^a University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Electrostatics; FPGA; Molecular dynamics; Reconfigurable

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION ACCELERATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; RECONFIGURABLE COMPUTERS; RECONFIGURABLE HARDWARE;

COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA); MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NATURAL SCIENCES COMPUTING;

ELECTROSTATICS;

EID: 34548223233     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1188455.1188550     Document Type: Conference Paper

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