Performance and cost effectiveness of a cluster of workstations and MD-GRAPE 2 for MD simulations

Proceedings - 2nd International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing, ISPDC 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 244-249

  Sumanth, J V ^a   Swanson, David R ^a   Jiang, Hong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER COMPUTING; COMPUTER HARDWARE; COSTS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

CLUSTER COMPUTER; CLUSTER OF WORKSTATIONS; COST EFFECTIVE; LONG-RANGE POTENTIAL; MD SIMULATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; PURCHASE PRICE; SPECIALIZED HARDWARE;

COST EFFECTIVENESS;

EID: 84947903384     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISPDC.2003.1267670     Document Type: Conference Paper

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