LARGE-SCALE SIMULATIONS IN CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS —THE NEED FOR A TERAFLOP COMPUTER

K. Binder
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K. Binder: Institut für Physik, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Staudingerweg 7, D-6500 Mainz, Germany

International Journal of Modern Physics C (IJMPC), 1992, vol. 03, issue 03, 565-581

Abstract: The introduction of vector processors {“supercomputers” with a performance in the range of109floating point operations (1 GFLOP) per second} has had an enormous impact on computational condensed matter physics. The possibility of a substantially enhanced performance by massively parallel processors (“teraflop” machines with1012floating point operations per second) will allow satisfactory treatment of a large range of important scientific problems which have to a great extent thus far escaped numerical resolution. The present paper describes only a few examples (out of a long list of interesting research problems!) for which the availability of “teraflops” will allow spectacular progress, i.e., the modelling of dense macromolecular systems and metallic alloys by molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo simulations.

Date: 1992
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