MDGRAPE-4: A special-purpose computer system formolecular dynamics simulations

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 372, Issue 2021, 2014, Pages

  Ohmura, Itta ^a   Morimoto, Gentaro ^a   Ohno, Yousuke ^a   Hasegawa, Aki ^a   Taiji, Makoto ^a  

^a RIKEN   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hardware accelerator; High performance computing; Molecular dynamics simulation; Multiscale simulation; Scalable parallel system

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION LANGUAGES; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; PIPELINES;

HARDWARE ACCELERATORS; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; MULTI-SCALE SIMULATION; PARALLEL SYSTEM;

SYSTEM-ON-CHIP;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA STORAGE DEVICE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; HARDWARE ACCELERATOR; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MULTISCALE SIMULATION; SCALABLE PARALLEL SYSTEM; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

HARDWARE ACCELERATOR; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; MULTISCALE SIMULATION; SCALABLE PARALLEL SYSTEM;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER STORAGE DEVICES; COMPUTERS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOFTWARE; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION;

EID: 84903952306     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2013.0387     Document Type: Article

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