Architecture of Qbox: A scalable first-principles molecular dynamics code

IBM Journal of Research and Development

Volumn 52, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 137-144

  Gygi, François ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; LINEAR ALGEBRA; MESSAGE PASSING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; XML;

BASIC LINEAR ALGEBRA COMMUNICATION SUBPROGRAMS; FIRST-PRINCIPLES MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; SCALABLE LINEAR ALGEBRA PACKAGE;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 40749124008     PISSN: 00188646     EISSN: 00188646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1147/rd.521.0137     Document Type: Article

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