A short description of DL_POLY

Molecular Simulation

Volumn 32, Issue 12-13, 2006, Pages 935-943

  Smith, W ^a   Todorov, I T ^a  

^a DARESBURY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

DL_POLY; Domain decomposition; Molecular dynamics; Replicated data; Scientific software

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; DOMAIN DECOMPOSITION METHODS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

DISTRIBUTED MEMORY; REPLICATED DATA; SCIENTIFIC SOFTWARES;

SOFTWARE PACKAGES;

EID: 34548379443     PISSN: 08927022     EISSN: 10290435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08927020600939830     Document Type: Article

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