Impact of multicores on large-scale molecular dynamics simulations

IPDPS Miami 2008 - Proceedings of the 22nd IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, Program and CD-ROM

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Alam, Sadaf R ^a   Agarwal, Pratul K ^a   Hampton, Scott S ^a   Ong, Hong ^a   Vetter, Jeffrey S ^a  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER NETWORKS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY;

MULTI-CORE PROCESSORS; PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING; RESOURCE CONTENTION;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 51249085243     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IPDPS.2008.4536181     Document Type: Conference Paper

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