TRILLION-ATOM MOLECULAR DYNAMICS BECOMES A REALITY

被引:65
作者
Germann, Timothy C. [1 ]
Kadau, Kai [1 ]
机构
[1] Los Alamos Natl Lab, Div Theoret, Los Alamos, NM 87545 USA
来源
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MODERN PHYSICS C | 2008年 / 19卷 / 09期
关键词
Molecular dynamics; BlueGene/L; high performance computing; SPaSM; large-scale; trillion-atom; visualization;
D O I
10.1142/S0129183108012911
中图分类号
TP39 [计算机的应用];
学科分类号
081203 ; 0835 ;
摘要
By utilizing the molecular dynamics code SPaSM on Livermore's BlueGene/L architecture, consisting of 212992 IBM PowerPC440 700 MHz processors, a molecular dynamics simulation was run with one trillion atoms. To demonstrate the practicality and future potential of such ultra large-scale simulations, the onset of the mechanical shear instability occurring in a system of Lennard-Jones particles arranged in a simple cubic lattice was simulated. The evolution of the instability was analyzed on-the-fly using the in-house developed massively parallel graphical object-rendering code MD-render.
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页码:1315 / 1319
页数:5
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