Computing: distributed

F) EFFICIENT AND WIDELY DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER PROGRAMS EXIST FOR CARRYING OUT ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE CALCULATIONS... 

The new formalism is especially useful for parallel and distributed computers, since the communication intensity is exceptionally low and excellent load balancing is easy to achieve. In fact, we have used cluster of workstations (Silicon Graphics) and parallel computers - Terra 2000 and IBM SP/2 - to study dynamics of proteins. 

W. T. Rankin and J. A. Board, Jr., A Portable Distributed Implementation of the Parallel Multipole Tree Algorithm, Proceedings, Fourth IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing, IEEE Computer Society Press (1995), pp. 17-22. 

Rankin, W., Board, J. A portable distributed implementation of the parallel multipole tree algorithm. IEEE Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing. Duke University Technical Report 95-002. 

Fig. 20—Oil shape and pressure distribution computed from the ordered model.

The potential power of distributed computing is well demonstrated at the website www.distributed.net... 

To examine the accuracy of solvation free energies, first one needs to achieve a sufficient precision to compare with experiment. This was recently done extensively by Shirts et al. [101], where the Folding0Home distributed computing network... 

Bohannon, John, Distributed computing. Grassroots supercomputing., Science May 2005, 308, 810-813. 

Using particle partitioning, particle codes exhibit excellent scalability on distributed computing platforms (i.e., cluster computers). However, with complex chemistry, care must be taken when implementing chemical lookup tables to avoid scale-up bottlenecks. 

Janak, S.L., Tin, X., and Floudas, C.A. (2007) A new robust optimization approach for scheduling under uncertainty II. Uncertainty with known probability distribution. Computers Chemical Engineering, 31, 171. 

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