50 GFlops molecular dynamics on the Connection Machine 5
- Los Alamos National Lab., NM (United States)
The authors present timings and performance numbers for a new short range three dimensional (3D) molecular dynamics (MD) code, SPaSM, on the Connection Machine-5 (CM-5). They demonstrate that runs with more than 10{sup 8} particles are now possible on massively parallel MIMD computers. To the best of their knowledge this is at least an order of magnitude more particles than what has previously been reported. Typical production runs show sustained performance (including communication) in the range of 47--50 GFlops on a 1024 node CM-5 with vector units (VUs). The speed of the code scales linearly with the number of processors and with the number of particles and shows 95% parallel efficiency in the speedup.
- OSTI ID:
- 46248
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-931115-; TRN: 95:011255
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Supercomputing conference on high performance computing and communications, Portland, OR (United States), 15-19 Nov 1993; Other Information: PBD: 1993; Related Information: Is Part Of Supercomputing `93: Proceedings; PB: 961 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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