@article{WANG2005, 
author = {Bing WANG and Jiwu SHU and Weimin ZHENG and Jinzhao WANG and Min CHEN},
title = {Hybrid Decomposition Method in Parallel Molecular Dynamics Simulation Based on SMP Cluster Architecture},
year = {2005},
journal = {Tsinghua Science and Technology},
volume = {10},
number = {2},
pages = {183-188},
keywords = {molecular dynamics, decomposition, symmetric multi-processor (SMP), cluster computing},
url = {https://www.sciopen.com/article/10.1016/S1007-0214(05)70052-3},
doi = {10.1016/S1007-0214(05)70052-3},
abstract = {A hybrid decomposition method for molecular dynamics simulations was presented, using simultaneously spatial decomposition and force decomposition to fit the architecture of a cluster of symmetric multi-processor (SMP) nodes. The method distributes particles between nodes based on the spatial decomposition strategy to reduce inter-node communication costs. The method also partitions particle pairs within each node using the force decomposition strategy to improve the load balance for each node. Simulation results for a nucleation process with 4000000 particles show that the hybrid method achieves better parallel performance than either spatial or force decomposition alone, especially when applied to a large scale particle system with non-uniform spatial density.}
}