Exploiting hierarchical parallelisms for molecular dynamics simulation on multicore clusters

Journal of Supercomputing

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 20-33

  Peng, Liu ^a   Kunaseth, Manaschai ^a   Dursun, Hikmet ^a   Nomura, Ken Ichi ^a   Wang, Weiqiang ^a   Kalia, Rajiv K ^a   Nakano, Aiichiro ^a   Vashishta, Priya ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Molecular dynamics simulation; Multicore cluster; Scalable hierarchical parallelization scheme; Single instruction multiple data

Indexed keywords

CODE TRANSFORMATION; DATA LOCALITY; HIERARCHICAL PARALLELISM; HIERARCHICAL PARALLELIZATION; MASTER/WORKER; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; MULTI-CORE CLUSTER; MULTI-LEVEL PARALLELISM; MULTI-THREAD; MULTI-THREADING; PARALLEL EFFICIENCY; PROBLEM SIZE; SINGLE INSTRUCTION MULTIPLE DATA; SPATIAL DECOMPOSITIONS;

COSINE TRANSFORMS; EFFICIENCY; MESSAGE PASSING; METADATA; MOLECULAR MECHANICS;

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

EID: 79958805983     PISSN: 09208542     EISSN: 15730484     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11227-011-0560-1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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