Performance of the Cell processor for biomolecular simulations
Abstract
The new Cell processor represents a turning point for computing intensive applications. Here, I show that for molecular dynamics it is possible to reach an impressive sustained performance in excess of 30 Gflops with a peak of 45 Gflops for the non-bonded force calculations, over one order of magnitude faster than a single core standard processor.
- Publication:
-
Computer Physics Communications
- Pub Date:
- June 2007
- DOI:
- 10.1016/j.cpc.2007.02.107
- arXiv:
- arXiv:physics/0611201
- Bibcode:
- 2007CoPhC.176..660D
- Keywords:
-
- 82.20.Wt;
- 83.10.Rs;
- Computational modeling;
- simulation;
- Computer simulation of molecular and particle dynamics;
- Physics - Computational Physics;
- Physics - Biological Physics
- E-Print:
- doi:10.1016/j.cpc.2007.02.107