Computational chemistry on Fujitsu vector-parallel processors: Development and performance of applications software

Alistair P. Rendell, Andrey Bliznyuk, Thomas Huber, Ross H. Nobes, Elena V. Akhmatskaya, Herbert A. Früchtl, Paul W.C. Kung, Victor Milman, Han Lung

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    Abstract

    In this and a preceding paper, we provide an introduction to the Fujitsu VPP range of vector-parallel supercomputers and to some of the computational chemistry software available for the VPP. Here, we consider the implementation and performance of seven popular chemistry application packages. The codes discussed range from classical molecular dynamics to semiempirical and ab initio quantum chemistry. All have evolved from sequential codes, and have typically been parallelized using a replicated data approach. As such they are well suited to the large-memory/fast-processor architecture of the VPP. For one code, CASTEP, a distributed-memory data-driven parallelization scheme is presented.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)887-911
    Number of pages25
    JournalParallel Computing
    Volume26
    Issue number7
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - Jul 2000

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