Molecular dynamics simulation of macromolecules using graphics processing unit

Molecular Simulation

Volumn 36, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 1131-1140

  Xu, Ji ^a,b   Ren, Ying ^a   Ge, Wei ^a   Yu, Xiang ^b,c   Yang, Xiaozhen ^c   Li, Jinghai ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PROCESS ENGINEERING   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (China)

Author keywords

CUDA; GPU; macromolecule; molecular dynamics; speedup

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL POWER; COMPUTATIONAL RESOURCES; COMPUTATIONAL TOOLS; CRYSTALLISATION; CUDA; GPU; GPU PROGRAMS; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNITS; MACROMOLECULAR SIMULATIONS; MACROMOLECULAR SYSTEMS; MD SIMULATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; MULTI-THREAD; SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS; SINGLE CPU; SPEED-UPS; SPEEDUP; TEMPORAL SCALE;

ALGORITHMS; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; DYNAMICS; IMAGE CODING; MACROMOLECULES; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS EQUIPMENT;

EID: 78650193792     PISSN: 08927022     EISSN: 10290435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08927022.2010.506512     Document Type: Article

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