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Accelerating Molecular Dynamics Simulations With Configurable Circuits

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Accelerating Molecular Dynamics Simulations With Configurable Circuits
Molecular Dynamics (MD) is of central importance to computational chemistry. Here we show that MD can be implemented efficiently on a COTS FPGA board, and that speedups from ¿½¢ to ¢ over a PC implementation can be obtained. Although the amount of speed-up depends on the stability required, ¢ can be obtained with virtually no detriment, and the upper end of the range is apparently viable in many cases. We sketch our FPGA implementations and describe the effects of precision on the trade-off between performance and quality of the MD simulation.
Yongfeng Gu, Tom Van Court, Martin C. Herbordt
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Type Conference
Year 2005
Where FPL
Authors Yongfeng Gu, Tom Van Court, Martin C. Herbordt
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