A Highly Parallel Computer for Molecular Dynamics Simulations
Tóm tắt
We are constructing a highly parallel computer array well suited to the requirements of molecular dynamics simulations of the behavior of large systems of interacting particles. A tightly coupled message passing structure is used based on a specially designed processor with 12 MFLOPS peak performance. High speed synchronous communication over a full permutation network and hardware support for operations important in molecular dynamics codes are also provided. An analysis of this configuration indicates that efficient use can be made of 1000 processors working simultaneously.
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