Overheads in accelerating molecular dynamics simulations with GPUs

Parallel and Distributed Computing, Applications and Technologies, PDCAT Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 143-150

  Narumi, Tetsu ^a   Sakamaki, Ryuji ^a   Kameoka, Shun ^a   Yasuoka, Kenji ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER HARDWARE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

ACCELERATION RATIOS; COMPUTATIONAL POWERS; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNITS; LONG RANGES; MD SIMULATIONS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; PEAK PERFORMANCES; VIDEO GAMES;

DYNAMICS;

EID: 58249097973     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PDCAT.2008.68     Document Type: Conference Paper

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