Improving Molecular Dynamics Simulation Performance on Low-Cost Systems

作者: Teong Han Chew , Kwee Hong Joyce-Tan , Zeti Azura Mohamed Hussein , Pek Iee Elizabeth-Chia , Mohd Shahir Shamsir

DOI: 10.1109/MCSE.2013.61

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摘要: For simulation-based work, researchers often have limited hardware capacities and budgets, so they create a low-cost parallel computing platform using PCs commodity hardware, assembled configured as Beowulf-class cluster. Here, an astute approach (for molecular dynamics simulation example) greatly improves performance through upgrades other tricks.

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