Analysis and Performance Results of a Molecular Modeling Application on Merrimac

Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE SC 2004 Conference: Bridging Communities

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages

  Erez, Mttan ^a   Ahn, Jung Ho ^a   Garg, Ankit ^a   Dally, William J ^a   Darve, Eric ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; HARDWARE; LOW POWER ELECTRONICS; MEMORY ARCHITECTURE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MANUFACTURE; SUPERCOMPUTERS;

FORCE CALCULATION; HARDWARE SIMULATORS; MEMORY OPERATIONS; MERRIMAC PROCESSORS; PARALLEL APPLICATION; PERFORMANCE BOTTLENECKS; SEMICONDUCTOR TECHNOLOGY; STREAM ARCHITECTURE;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84934343786     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SC.2004.69     Document Type: Conference Paper

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