Anton, a special-purpose machine for molecular dynamics simulation

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 51, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 91-97

  Shaw, David E ^a   Deneroff, Martin M ^b   Dror, Ron O ^b   Kuskin, Jeffrey S ^b   Larson, Richard H ^b   Salmon, John K ^b   Young, Cliff ^b   Batson, Brannon ^b   Bowers, Kevin J ^b   Chao, Jack C ^b   Eastwood, Michael P ^b   Gagliardo, Joseph ^b   Grossman, J P ^b   Ho, C Richard ^b   Lerardi, Douglas J ^b   Kolossváry, István ^b   Klepeis, John L ^b   Layman, Timothy ^b   McLeavey, Christine ^b   Moraes, Mark A ^b   Mueller, Rolf ^b   Priest, Edward C ^b   Shan, Yibing ^b   Spengler, Jochen ^b   Theobald, Michael ^b   Towles, Brian ^b   Wang, Stanley C ^b   more..

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIO MOLECULAR SYSTEMS; DEGREE OF PARALLELISM; HIGH-SPEED COMMUNICATIONS; MASSIVELY PARALLEL MACHINE; MD SIMULATIONS; MOLECULAR-DYNAMICS (MD) SIMULATIONS; ORDERS-OF-MAGNITUDE; PHYSICAL MODEL (PM); SIMULATION ALGORITHMS; SIMULATION METHODS; TIGHTLY COUPLED; TIME-SCALES; WIDE-RANGE;

APPLICATION SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; CANNING; HEALTH; MODELS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MOLECULES; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

DYNAMICS;

EID: 46249090563     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1364782.1364802     Document Type: Article

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