Distributed computing as a virtual supercomputer: Tools to run and manage large-scale BOINC simulations

Computer Physics Communications

Volumn 181, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1402-1409

  Giorgino, Toni ^a   Harvey, M J ^b   de Fabritiis, Gianni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

BOINC; Distributed computing; Grid computing; High performance computing; Molecular dynamics

Indexed keywords

ALL-ATOM MODEL; BINDING FREE ENERGY; COMPUTATIONAL PROBLEM; COMPUTATIONAL RESOURCES; COMPUTATIONAL SCIENTISTS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTATIONS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; HIGH THROUGHPUT EXPERIMENTS; IN-SILICO; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS METHODS; NETWORK COMPUTING; OPEN-SOURCE; PROCESSING POWER; VIRTUAL RESOURCE; WORK-FLOWS;

BINDING ENERGY; FREE ENERGY; GRID COMPUTING; MIDDLEWARE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; SUPERCOMPUTERS; THROUGHPUT;

DC POWER TRANSMISSION;

EID: 77953131277     PISSN: 00104655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cpc.2010.04.007     Document Type: Article

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