Hybrid message-passing and shared-memory programming in a molecular dynamics application on multicore clusters

International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 196-211

  Chorley, Martin J ^a   Walker, David W ^a   Guest, Martyn F ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Clusters; Hybrid programming; Message passing; Multicore; Shared memory

Indexed keywords

CLUSTERS; CODE PERFORMANCE; GIGABIT ETHERNET; HYBRID MODEL; HYBRID PROGRAMMING; INFINIBAND; LOW-LATENCY; MULTI-CORE CLUSTER; MULTI-CORE PROCESSOR; MULTICORE; PARALLEL APPLICATION; PERFORMANCE BENEFITS; PROGRAMMING MODELS; PROGRAMMING TECHNIQUE; SHARED MEMORIES; SHARED MEMORY; SYMMETRIC MULTI-PROCESSORS;

ETHERNET; HYBRID SENSORS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; QUEUEING NETWORKS; SHAPE MEMORY EFFECT;

MESSAGE PASSING;

EID: 68249091042     PISSN: 10943420     EISSN: 17412846     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1094342009106188     Document Type: Conference Paper

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