Implementation and performance evaluation of CONFLEX-G: Grid-enabled molecular conformational space search program with OmniRPC

Proceedings of the International Conference on Supercomputing

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 154-163

  Nakajima, Yoshihiro ^a   Sato, Mitsuhisa ^a   Goto, Hitoshi ^b   Boku, Taisuke ^a   Takahashi, Daisuke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b TOYOHASHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Computational chemistry; CONFLEX G; Conformational space search; Grid computing; Grid RPC system; OmniRPC

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATOMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; WIDE AREA NETWORKS;

COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY; GRID COMPUTING; GRID RPC SYSTEM; OMNIRPC; SPACE SEARCH PROGRAM;

COMPUTER SCIENCE;

EID: 8344241917     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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