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Concurrent Molecular Dynamics Simulation of ST2 Water on a Transputer Array

S. L. ForniliV. MartoranaF. Brugè

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Computer scienceGeneral Chemical EngineeringGeneral problemTransputerGeneral ChemistryParallel computingCondensed Matter PhysicsProcessor arrayMolecular dynamicsMIMDTask (computing)Modeling and SimulationDecomposition (computer science)General Materials SciencePairwise comparisonInformation Systems

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Abstract A concurrent implementation of a Molecular Dynamics program for ST2 water molecules is presented, which exploits the great potentialities of the Transputer arrays for statistical mechanical calculations. High load-balance efficiency is obtained using a new task decomposition algorithm which evenly distributes particles and interaction calculations among the processors. This approach can also help to solve efficiently the more general problem of task distribution in parallel computing of symmetric pairwise system properties.

https://doi.org/10.1080/08927028808080952