Porting the GROMACS molecular dynamics code to the cell processor

Proceedings - 21st International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, IPDPS 2007; Abstracts and CD-ROM

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Olivier, Stephen ^a   Prins, Jan ^a   Derby, Jeff ^b   Vu, Ken ^b  

^a University of North Carolina   (United States)

^b IBM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; CONSTRAINT THEORY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS;

CELL PROCESSORS; CODE PATTERNS; GROMACS MOLECULAR DYNAMICS CODES; KERNEL CODES;

CODES (SYMBOLS);

EID: 34548740086     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IPDPS.2007.370560     Document Type: Conference Paper

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