A high performance implementation for Molecular Dynamics simulations on a FPGA supercomputer

Proceedings of the 2011 NASA/ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems, AHS 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 375-382

  Kasap, Server ^a   Benkrid, Khaled ^b  

^a CYPRUS INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FPGA CORE; MD SIMULATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; MULTIPLE NODES; NONBONDED INTERACTION; PARALLEL MACHINE; PERFORMANCE GAIN; PERFORMANCE IMPLEMENTATION; PROCESSOR CORES; PROTEIN SYSTEM; SOFTWARE IMPLEMENTATION;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; SUPERCOMPUTERS;

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

EID: 80052133904     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/AHS.2011.5963962     Document Type: Conference Paper

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