Demonstrating the scalability of a molecular dynamics application on a petaflop computer

G. S. Almasi, C. Caşcaval, J. G. Castaños, M. Denneau, W. Donath, M. Eleftheriou, M. Giampapa, H. Ho, D. Lieber, J. E. Moreira, D. Newns, M. Snir, Jr Warren

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Abstract

The IBM Blue Gene project has endeavored into the development of a cellular architecture computer with millions of concurrent threads of execution. One of the major challenges of this project is demonstrating that applications can successfully exploit this massive amount of parallelism. Starting from the sequential version of a well known molecular dynamics code, we developed a new application that exploits the multiple levels of parallelism in the Blue Gene cellular architecture. We perform both analytical and simulation studies of the behavior of this application when executed on a vow large number of threads. As a result, we demonstrate that this class of applications can execute efficiently on a large cellular machine.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages393-406
Number of pages14
DOIs
StatePublished - 2001
Externally publishedYes
Event2001 International Conference on Supercomputing - Sorento, Italy
Duration: Jun 17 2001Jun 21 2001

Other

Other2001 International Conference on Supercomputing
Country/TerritoryItaly
CitySorento
Period6/17/016/21/01

Keywords

  • Blue Gene
  • Cellular architecture
  • Massively parallel computing
  • Molecular dynamics
  • Performance evaluation

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Computer Science

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