Implementation of NAMD molecular dynamics non-bonded force-field on the cell broadband engine processor

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Abstract

We present results of porting an important kernel of a production molecular dynamics simulation program, NAMD, to the Cell/B.E. processor. The non-bonded force-field kernel, as implemented in the NAMD SPEC 2006 CPU benchmark, has been implemented. Both single-precision and double-precision floating-point kernel variations are considered, and performance results obtained on the Cell/B.E., as well as several other platforms, are reported. Our results obtained on a 3.2 GHz Cell/B.E. blade show linear speedups when using multiple synergistic processing elements.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationIPDPS Miami 2008 - Proceedings of the 22nd IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, Program and CD-ROM
DOIs
StatePublished - 2008
EventIPDPS 2008 - 22nd IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium - Miami, FL, United States
Duration: Apr 14 2008Apr 18 2008

Publication series

NameIPDPS Miami 2008 - Proceedings of the 22nd IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, Program and CD-ROM

Other

OtherIPDPS 2008 - 22nd IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityMiami, FL
Period4/14/084/18/08

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Hardware and Architecture
  • Software
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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