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Using FPGA Devices to Accelerate Biomolecular Simulations

Journal Article · · Computer
A field-programmable gate array implementation of the particle-mesh Ewald a molecular dynamics simulation method reduces the microprocessor time-to-solution by a factor of three while using only high-level languages. The application speedup on FPGA devices increases with the problem size. The authors use a performance model to analyze the potential of simulating large-scale biological systems faster than many cluster-based supercomputing platforms.
Research Organization:
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
Sponsoring Organization:
ORNL LDRD Director's R&D
DOE Contract Number:
AC05-00OR22725
OSTI ID:
931390
Journal Information:
Computer, Journal Name: Computer Journal Issue: 3 Vol. 40; ISSN 0018-9162
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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