Molecular dynamics simulations on high-performance reconfigurable computing systems

ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Chiu, Matt ^a   Herbordt, Martin C ^a  

^a Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

Application acceleration; Bioinformatics; Biological sequence alignment; FPGA based coprocessors; High performance reconfigurable computing

Indexed keywords

ARITHMETIC ALGORITHMS; BIOLOGICAL SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; DESIGN SPACES; FPGA-BASED COPROCESSORS; HIGH PERFORMANCE RECONFIGURABLE COMPUTING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; MULTI CORE; PARTICLE PAIR; RECONFIGURABLE COMPUTING; RECONFIGURABLE COMPUTING SYSTEMS; SHORT-RANGE FORCES; SIMULATION QUALITY; STANDARD OPTIMIZATION;

BIOINFORMATICS; OPTIMIZATION; PIPELINES; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; RECONFIGURABLE ARCHITECTURES;

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

EID: 77956007831     PISSN: 19367406     EISSN: 19367414     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1862648.1862653     Document Type: Article

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