Highly accelerated simulations of glassy dynamics using GPUs: Caveats on limited floating-point precision

Computer Physics Communications

Volumn 182, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1120-1129

  Colberg, Peter H ^a,b,d   Höfling, Felix ^a,c,e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dynamics of supercooled liquids; GPU computing; Molecular dynamics simulations

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATED SIMULATIONS; COMPUTING RESOURCE; CRITICAL PARTS; FLOATING POINTS; FLOATING-POINT ARITHMETIC; GLASSY DYNAMICS; GPU COMPUTING; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNITS; LENNARD JONES FLUID; LENNARD-JONES MIXTURES; MD SIMULATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; MOMENTUM CONSERVATIONS; PROGRAMMING INTERFACE; SLOW DYNAMICS; SPEED-UP FACTORS; SPEED-UPS; SUPERCOOLED LIQUIDS; SYSTEM SIZE; TIME STABILITY;

CRYOGENIC LIQUIDS; DIGITAL ARITHMETIC; DYNAMICS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; SUPERCOOLING;

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

EID: 79952004866     PISSN: 00104655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cpc.2011.01.009     Document Type: Article

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