Title :
Synthesis of fault tolerant architectures for molecular dynamics
Author :
Yajnik, Shalini ; Jha, Niraj K.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Princeton Univ., NJ, USA
fDate :
30 May-2 Jun 1994
Abstract :
Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations play an important role in the study of conformations and dynamics of proteins and nucleic acids. This paper suggests ways of mapping the molecular dynamics calculations to various types of parallel architectures, e.g. mesh array, linear array, such that the inherent redundancy involved in the simulation algorithm can be used to make the computation fault tolerant without much overhead
Keywords :
fault tolerant computing; molecular dynamics method; numerical analysis; parallel architectures; redundancy; fault tolerant architectures; inherent redundancy; linear array; mesh array; molecular dynamics; overhead; parallel architectures; simulation algorithm; Atomic measurements; Computational modeling; Computer simulation; Concurrent computing; Equations; Fault tolerance; Parallel architectures; Parallel processing; Protein engineering; Redundancy;
Conference_Titel :
Circuits and Systems, 1994. ISCAS '94., 1994 IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
London
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-1915-X
DOI :
10.1109/ISCAS.1994.409243