Scalability study of molecular dynamics simulation on Godson-T many-core architecture

Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing

Volumn 73, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1469-1482

  Peng, Liu ^a   Tan, Guangming ^b   Kalia, Rajiv K ^a   Nakano, Aiichiro ^a   Vashishta, Priya ^a   Fan, Dongrui ^b   Zhang, Hao ^b   Song, Fenglong ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF COMPUTING TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Many core architecture; Molecular dynamics; Scalability

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURAL FEATURES; HIERARCHICAL PARALLELIZATION; INCREMENTAL OPTIMIZATION; MANY-CORE ARCHITECTURE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; PREPROCESSING APPROACHES; REAL-WORLD SIMULATION; SYMMETRIC MULTI-PROCESSORS;

ALGORITHMS; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA); MEMORY ARCHITECTURE; OPTIMIZATION; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SCALABILITY;

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

EID: 84884815836     PISSN: 07437315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpdc.2012.07.007     Document Type: Article

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