Title :
An approach to scalable molecular dynamics simulation using supercomputing adaptive processing elements
Author :
Cordova, Luis E. ; Buell, Duncan A.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., South Carolina Univ., Columbia, SC, USA
Abstract :
We implement and report performance numbers of an entire molecular dynamics application in floating point on reconfigurable hardware achieving sustainable speedup and scaling with a novel technique based on adaptive processing elements.
Keywords :
floating point arithmetic; molecular dynamics method; reconfigurable architectures; floating point; reconfigurable hardware; scalable molecular dynamics simulation; supercomputing adaptive processing element; Acceleration; Application software; Computational efficiency; Computational modeling; Computer science; Hardware; Kernel; Numerical simulation; Space exploration; Supercomputers;
Conference_Titel :
Field Programmable Logic and Applications, 2005. International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9362-7
DOI :
10.1109/FPL.2005.1515820