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- From: vamsee@abgen.tamu.edu (Vamsee Lakamsani)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.graphics,comp.graphics.opengl,comp.graphics.visualization,comp.sys.sgi.apps
- Subject: Displaying parallel simulations on a remote workstation
- Date: 9 Jan 1993 00:45:47 GMT
- Organization: Center for Macromolecular Design, Texas A&M University.
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- The computational problem is molecular dynamics simulations. x,y,z
- coordinates of the atoms in a molecule at different time steps are
- one of the outputs produced by such simulations. These coordinates
- are then used by a display program to display the molecule's dynamics
- on a workstation (Silicon Graphics INDIGO Elan 4.0.5A). As molecular
- dynamics is computationally intensive, we are exploring ways to
- speed up the simulation using parallel computers (Intel Paragon, MasPar,
- nCUBE 2S). These machines can be accessed from the Silicon Graphics
- Workstations via ethernet.
-
- As the parallel computer calculates those configurations ( Roughly, a
- configuration is one set of x,y,z coordinates) we would like to be able
- to display them on the SGI. The idea is to demonstrate to a naive
- audience that indeed parallelism is able to speed up the computations.
- (You would perhaps agree with me that "naive audience" prefers graphics
- demos to algorithmic proofs :-) ).
-
- Previous experience on similar problems, information on public domain or
- commercial software, any other ideas on convincing the audience would be
- greatly helpful.
-
- Vamsee
- (vamsee@tamu.edu)
-