An evaluation of molecular dynamics performance on the hybrid cray XK6 supercomputer

Procedia Computer Science

Volumn 9, Issue , 2012, Pages 186-195

  Brown, W Michael ^a   Nguyen, Trung D ^a   Fuentes Cabrera, Miguel ^a   Fowlkes, Jason D ^a   Rack, Philip D ^b   Berger, Mark ^c   Bland, Arthur S ^a  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b University of Tennessee Knoxville   (United States)

^c NVIDIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Embedded atom method; GPU; Materials; Molecular dynamics; Supercomputer

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870862120     PISSN: 18770509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.procs.2012.04.020     Document Type: Conference Paper

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