A 55 TFLOPS simulation of amyloid-forming peptides from yeast prion Sup35 with the special-purpose computer system MDGRAPE-3

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

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Narumi, Tetsu ^a,c   Ohno, Yousuke ^a,c   Okimoto, Noriaki ^a,c   Koishi, Takahiro ^a,d   Suenaga, Atsushi ^a,c   Futatsugi, Noriyuki ^a,c   Yanai, Ryoko ^a,c   Himeno, Ryutaro ^a,e   Fujikawa, Shigenori ^a,d   Taiji, Makoto ^a,c   Ikei, Mitsuru ^b,f  

^a RIKEN   (Japan)

^b INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

^c Genome Science Center   (Japan)

^d Topochemical Design Laboratory

^e Advanced Center for Computing and Communication

^f Software and Solutions Group

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID FIBRIL; COULOMB FORCE; NUCLEUS; PRION; TFLOPS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; DISEASES; ELONGATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; YEAST;

PEPTIDES;

EID: 34548274117     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1188455.1188506     Document Type: Conference Paper

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