Manager-worker-based model for the parallelization of quantum Monte Carlo on heterogeneous and homogeneous networks

Journal of Computational Chemistry

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 8-16

  Feldmann, Michael T ^a   Cummings, Julian C ^a   Kent Iv, David R ^b   Muller, Richard P ^b,c   Goddard III, William A ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Decorrelation; Initialization; Parallel efficiency; Parallelization algorithm; Quantum Monte Carlo

Indexed keywords

DECORRELATION ALGORITHMS; INITIALIZATION; ITERATIVE ALGORITHMS; PARALLEL EFFICIENCY; PARALLELIZATION ALGORITHMS;

ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; QUANTUM COMPUTERS;

PARALLEL ALGORITHMS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; QUANTUM THEORY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 37649001422     PISSN: 01928651     EISSN: 1096987X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jcc.20836     Document Type: Article

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