Toward energy efficiency in heterogeneous processors: Findings on virtual screening methods

Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1832-1846

  Guerrero, Ginés D ^a   Cebrián, Juan M ^b   Pérez Sánchez, Horacio ^c   García, José M ^a   Ujaldõn, Manuel ^d   Cecilia, José M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

^b Department of Computer and Information Science ^*  (Norway)

^c CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA   (Spain)

Author keywords

energy efficiency; heterogenous computing; molecular docking

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS EQUIPMENT; ELECTRIC POWER UTILIZATION; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT; GREEN COMPUTING; PROGRAM PROCESSORS;

COMPUTE UNIFIED DEVICE ARCHITECTURES; HETEROGENEOUS PROCESSORS; HETEROGENEOUS SYSTEMS; HETEROGENOUS COMPUTING; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING (HPC); MOLECULAR DOCKING; PERFORMANCE PENALTIES; THERAPEUTIC STRATEGY;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

EID: 84902545801     PISSN: 15320626     EISSN: 15320634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cpe.3119     Document Type: Conference Paper

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