OVERCOMING COMMUNICATION LATENCY BARRIERS IN MASSIVELY PARALLEL SCIENTIFIC COMPUTATION

Dror, Ron O. and Grossman, J. P. and Mackenzie, Kenneth M. and Towles, Brian and Chow, Edmond and Salmon, John K. and Young, Cliff and Bank, Joseph A. and Batson, Brannon and Deneroff, Martin M. and Kuskin, Jeffrey S. and Larson, Richard H. and Moraes, Mark A. and Shaw, David E.

IEEE MICRO, 31, 8-19 (2011)

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Anton, a massively parallel special-purpose machine that accelerates molecular dynamics simulations by orders of magnitude, uses a combination of specialized hardware mechanisms and restructured software algorithms to reduce and hide communication latency. Anton delivers end-to-end internode latency significantly lower than any other large-scale parallel machine, and its critical-path communication time for molecular dynamics simulations is less than 3 percent that of the next-fastest platform.

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