Enabling and scaling biomolecular simulations of 100 million atoms on petascale machines with a multicore-optimized Message-driven runtime

Proceedings of 2011 SC - International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Mei, Chao ^a   Sun, Yanhua ^a   Zheng, Gengbin ^a   Bohm, Eric J ^a   Kale, Laxmikant V ^a   C phillips, James ^b   Harrison, Chris ^b  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY; BIOMOLECULAR SIMULATION; BLUE GENE; CHARM++; MEMORY FOOTPRINT; MESSAGE-DRIVEN; MOLECULAR SYSTEMS; MULTI-CORE CLUSTER; OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY; PARALLEL EFFICIENCY; PARALLEL I/O; PETASCALE; RUNTIMES;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION;

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 83155173599     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2063384.2063466     Document Type: Conference Paper

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