Progress towards petascale applications in biology: Status in 2006

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4375 LNCS, Issue , 2007, Pages 289-303

  Stewart, Craig A ^a   Müller, Matthias ^b   Lingwall, Malinda ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Computational biology; Grand challenge problem; High performance computing; Life sciences; Peak theoretical capacity; Petabytes; Petaflops; Petascale computing

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PROTEINS; SUPERCOMPUTERS;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GRAND CHALLENGE PROBLEM; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; LIFE SCIENCES; PEAK THEORETICAL CAPACITY; PETABYTES; PETASCALE COMPUTING;

COMPUTATION THEORY;

EID: 38149075294     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-72337-0_29     Document Type: Conference Paper

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