------------------------------------------------------------------------------- B O S T O N U N I V E R S I T Y Computer Science Department C O L L O Q U I U M Wednesday February 22, 1995 3:00pm (Coffee served at 2:30pm) Seminar Room / MCS 135 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Parallel Algorithms for Short-Range Molecular Dynamics Roscoe Giles Boston University Center for Computational Science, and Dept. of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering Over the last three years short-range parallel Molecular Dynamics methods have converged to two approaches: the cell method, which uses spatial decomposition to map rectangular regions of space to processors, and the Verlet neighbor table method, which combines the use of these cells with local neighbor tables. This talk reviews the basics of these methods and analyzes in more detail one example of each: Los Alamos's SPaSM and Boston University-TMC's MD program. We show that these methods are fast, scalable, efficient and exploit the power of parallel machines even for hundreds of processors. Host: Prof. Mark Crovella ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For colloquium info, including directions, see http://cs-www.bu.edu/colloquium For more information contact Prof. Mark Crovella -------------------------------------------------------------------------------