Molecular dynamics on transputer arrays

摘要

The implementation of a molecular dynamics simulation on a 10ntransputer system is reported. The implementation exploits fully thengeometric parallelism of the problem. A simple model of the computingnand communications overheads leads to predictions of the optimal scalingnof the problem size with the number of processors. The implementationnexploits fully the domain decomposition paradigm in which load balancingnis guaranteed by the compressibility theorem of statistical mechanics