Title :
Distributed load balancing for molecular dynamics simulations
Author :
Di Serio, A. ; Ibanez, M.B.
Author_Institution :
Departamento de Computacion y Tecnologia de la Informacion, Simon Bolivar Univ., Caracas, Venezuela
Abstract :
We customize a dynamic load balancer to the molecular dynamics problem. The balancer is distributed, it requires no long-distance inter-process communications but only those among adjacent processors. It works accurately achieving significant time improvements when the system maintains moderate imbalance levels. The overhead is a problem only when the system does not achieve a minimum threshold imbalance.
Keywords :
digital simulation; distributed programming; molecular dynamics method; resource allocation; distributed load balancing; dynamic load balancer; molecular dynamics; short range molecular dynamics; threshold imbalance; Computational efficiency; Computational modeling; Concurrent computing; Dynamic range; Liquids; Load management; Physics; Scalability; Solids; Universal Serial Bus;
Conference_Titel :
High Performance Computing Systems and Applications, 2002. Proceedings. 16th Annual International Symposium on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-1626-2
DOI :
10.1109/HPCSA.2002.1019172