Memory-efficient implementation of a rigid-body molecular dynamics simulation

Proceedings - 2012 11th International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing, ISPDC 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 103-110

  Eckhardt, Wolfgang ^a   Neckel, Tobias ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Linked Cells; memory efficiency; rigid body molecular dynamics; vectorization

Indexed keywords

BLUE GENE; FORCE CALCULATION; LINKED-CELLS; LOW MEMORY; MEMORY CONSUMPTION; MEMORY EFFICIENCY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; RIGID BODY; RUNTIMES; VECTORIZATION;

DATA STRUCTURES;

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

EID: 84870734474     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISPDC.2012.22     Document Type: Conference Paper

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